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Genesis 1.2: 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Genesis 1.4: 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1.5: 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1.6: 6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Genesis 1.7: 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

Genesis 1.8: 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1.9: 9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.10: 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.11: 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.12: 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.14: 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

Genesis 1.15: 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.16: 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

Genesis 1.17: 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

Genesis 1.18: 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.20: 20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Genesis 1.21: 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.22: 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1.24: 24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.25: 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.26: 26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1.27: 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1.28: 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1.29: 29 God said, “Behold,2 I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Genesis 1.30: 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.31: 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 2.2: 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2.3: 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

Genesis 2.4: 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh1 God made the earth and the heavens.

Genesis 2.5: 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

Genesis 2.6: 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 2.7: 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2.8: 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2.9: 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2.10: 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

Genesis 2.11: 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2.12: 12 and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium2 and onyx stone are also there.

Genesis 2.13: 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2.14: 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2.15: 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Genesis 2.16: 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

Genesis 2.17: 17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Genesis 2.18: 18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to3 him.”

Genesis 2.19: 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

Genesis 2.20: 20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

Genesis 2.21: 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Genesis 2.22: 22 Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Genesis 2.23: 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 2.24: 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Genesis 2.25: 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

Genesis 3.1: 3Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Genesis 3.2: 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3.3: 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

Genesis 3.5: 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3.6: 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Genesis 3.7: 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3.8: 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3.9: 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3.10: 10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3.11: 11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Genesis 3.12: 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3.19: 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,

Genesis 3.20: 20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3.21: 21 Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Genesis 3.22: 22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 3.23: 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3.24: 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim1 at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4.1: 4The man knew1 Eve his wife. She conceived,2 and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Genesis 4.2: 2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 4.3: 3 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

Genesis 4.4: 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

Genesis 4.5: 5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Genesis 4.6: 6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Genesis 4.7: 7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Genesis 4.8: 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Genesis 4.10: 10 Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Genesis 4.11: 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 4.12: 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Genesis 4.13: 13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Genesis 4.14: 14 Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 4.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

Genesis 4.16: 16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4.17: 17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 4.18: 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 4.19: 19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

Genesis 4.20: 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

Genesis 4.21: 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

Genesis 4.22: 22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah.

Genesis 4.25: 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

Genesis 4.26: 26 A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

Genesis 5.1: 5This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Genesis 5.2: 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.1

Genesis 5.3: 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 5.4: 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.5: 5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Genesis 5.6: 6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.

Genesis 5.7: 7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.8: 8 All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.

Genesis 5.10: 10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.11: 11 All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.

Genesis 5.12: 12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.

Genesis 5.13: 13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters

Genesis 5.14: 14 and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

Genesis 5.15: 15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.

Genesis 5.16: 16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.17: 17 All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

Genesis 5.18: 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.

Genesis 5.19: 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.20: 20 All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

Genesis 5.21: 21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.

Genesis 5.22: 22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.25: 25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5.26: 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.27: 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Genesis 5.28: 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.

Genesis 5.29: 29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Genesis 5.30: 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.31: 31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

Genesis 5.32: 32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6.1: 6When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6.2: 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

Genesis 6.3: 3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Genesis 6.4: 4 The Nephilim1 were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6.5: 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Genesis 6.6: 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Genesis 6.7: 7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 6.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6.11: 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 6.12: 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 6.13: 13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

Genesis 6.14: 14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Genesis 6.15: 15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits,2 its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Genesis 6.16: 16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

Genesis 6.17: 17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

Genesis 6.18: 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 6.19: 19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Genesis 6.20: 20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 6.21: 21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”

Genesis 7.1: 7Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Genesis 7.2: 2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

Genesis 7.3: 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

Genesis 7.4: 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

Genesis 7.6: 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

Genesis 7.7: 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Genesis 7.8: 8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

Genesis 7.9: 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Genesis 7.11: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Genesis 7.13: 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

Genesis 7.14: 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 7.15: 15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

Genesis 7.16: 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

Genesis 7.17: 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Genesis 7.18: 18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7.19: 19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

Genesis 7.20: 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits1 higher, and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7.21: 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Genesis 7.22: 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Genesis 7.23: 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

Genesis 8.1: 8God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

Genesis 8.2: 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Genesis 8.3: 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

Genesis 8.4: 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

Genesis 8.5: 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

Genesis 8.6: 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

Genesis 8.7: 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8.8: 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

Genesis 8.9: 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

Genesis 8.10: 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

Genesis 8.11: 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

Genesis 8.12: 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

Genesis 8.13: 13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8.14: 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Genesis 8.16: 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 8.17: 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 8.18: 18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

Genesis 8.19: 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Genesis 8.20: 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8.21: 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Genesis 8.22: 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Genesis 9.1: 9God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9.2: 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9.3: 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Genesis 9.5: 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

Genesis 9.6: 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 9.7: 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

Genesis 9.9: 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

Genesis 9.10: 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

Genesis 9.11: 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9.12: 12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

Genesis 9.13: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9.14: 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

Genesis 9.15: 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9.16: 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

Genesis 9.17: 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Genesis 9.18: 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9.19: 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 9.21: 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Genesis 9.22: 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9.23: 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 9.24: 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Genesis 9.29: 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.

Genesis 10.1: 10Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10.2: 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10.5: 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10.7: 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10.8: 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Genesis 10.9: 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Genesis 10.10: 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10.11: 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Genesis 10.13: 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Genesis 10.14: 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10.18: 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

Genesis 10.19: 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.

Genesis 10.20: 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

Genesis 10.21: 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.

Genesis 10.22: 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 10.24: 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.

Genesis 10.25: 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10.26: 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10.30: 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Genesis 10.31: 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.

Genesis 10.32: 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11.2: 2 As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Genesis 11.3: 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Genesis 11.4: 4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11.5: 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Genesis 11.6: 6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Genesis 11.7: 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11.8: 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Genesis 11.9: 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Genesis 11.10: 10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 11.11: 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.12: 12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

Genesis 11.13: 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.15: 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.17: 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.19: 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.21: 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.23: 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.24: 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

Genesis 11.25: 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.26: 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11.27: 27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

Genesis 11.28: 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

Genesis 11.29: 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

Genesis 11.31: 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

Genesis 11.32: 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12.1: 12Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12.2: 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Genesis 12.3: 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12.4: 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Genesis 12.5: 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12.6: 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 12.7: 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” 1

Genesis 12.8: 8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

Genesis 12.10: 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 12.11: 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

Genesis 12.12: 12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

Genesis 12.13: 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

Genesis 12.14: 14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12.15: 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 12.16: 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12.17: 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12.18: 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

Genesis 12.19: 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

Genesis 12.20: 20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

Genesis 13.1: 13Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.

Genesis 13.3: 3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13.4: 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

Genesis 13.6: 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.

Genesis 13.7: 7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

Genesis 13.8: 8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Genesis 13.9: 9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

Genesis 13.10: 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 13.11: 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

Genesis 13.12: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

Genesis 13.13: 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

Genesis 13.14: 14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

Genesis 13.15: 15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.

Genesis 13.16: 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Genesis 13.17: 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 13.18: 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Genesis 14.1: 14In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,

Genesis 14.2: 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).

Genesis 14.3: 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14.4: 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14.5: 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Genesis 14.6: 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 14.7: 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 14.8: 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

Genesis 14.9: 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

Genesis 14.10: 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Genesis 14.11: 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

Genesis 14.12: 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14.13: 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.

Genesis 14.14: 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

Genesis 14.15: 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

Genesis 14.16: 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

Genesis 14.17: 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

Genesis 14.18: 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 14.19: 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Genesis 14.20: 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Genesis 14.21: 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”

Genesis 14.22: 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 14.23: 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Genesis 14.24: 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

Genesis 15.1: 15After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Genesis 15.2: 2 Abram said, “Lord1 Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 15.3: 3 Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

Genesis 15.4: 4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 15.5: 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

Genesis 15.6: 6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15.7: 7 He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

Genesis 15.8: 8 He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

Genesis 15.9: 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

Genesis 15.10: 10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

Genesis 15.11: 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15.12: 12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

Genesis 15.13: 13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

Genesis 15.14: 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

Genesis 15.15: 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15.16: 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Genesis 15.17: 17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Genesis 15.18: 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 15.21: 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

Genesis 16.1: 16Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16.2: 2 Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16.3: 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Genesis 16.4: 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Genesis 16.5: 5 Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

Genesis 16.6: 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

Genesis 16.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16.8: 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”

Genesis 16.9: 9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Genesis 16.10: 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

Genesis 16.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Genesis 16.12: 12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

Genesis 16.13: 13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

Genesis 16.14: 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.1 Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16.15: 15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Genesis 16.16: 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Genesis 17.1: 17When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 17.2: 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17.4: 4 “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17.5: 5 Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17.6: 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

Genesis 17.7: 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Genesis 17.8: 8 I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

Genesis 17.9: 9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

Genesis 17.10: 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17.11: 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17.12: 12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

Genesis 17.13: 13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17.14: 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

Genesis 17.15: 15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

Genesis 17.16: 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 17.17: 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Genesis 17.18: 18 Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Genesis 17.19: 19 God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.1 I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Genesis 17.20: 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 17.21: 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Genesis 17.23: 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

Genesis 17.24: 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17.25: 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17.26: 26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

Genesis 17.27: 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Genesis 18.1: 18Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 18.2: 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Genesis 18.3: 3 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Genesis 18.4: 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Genesis 18.5: 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”

Genesis 18.6: 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs1 of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Genesis 18.7: 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

Genesis 18.8: 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Genesis 18.10: 10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”

Genesis 18.11: 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Genesis 18.12: 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Genesis 18.13: 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’

Genesis 18.14: 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Genesis 18.15: 15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.

Genesis 18.16: 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

Genesis 18.18: 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Genesis 18.19: 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Genesis 18.20: 20 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Genesis 18.21: 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Genesis 18.22: 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Genesis 18.23: 23 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18.24: 24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

Genesis 18.25: 25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Genesis 18.26: 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Genesis 18.27: 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 18.28: 28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?”

Genesis 18.29: 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”

Genesis 18.30: 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”

Genesis 18.31: 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”

Genesis 18.32: 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”

Genesis 18.33: 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Genesis 19.1: 19The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Genesis 19.2: 2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.”

Genesis 19.3: 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Genesis 19.4: 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

Genesis 19.5: 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

Genesis 19.6: 6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.

Genesis 19.8: 8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

Genesis 19.9: 9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

Genesis 19.10: 10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

Genesis 19.11: 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Genesis 19.12: 12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

Genesis 19.13: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

Genesis 19.14: 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!”

Genesis 19.15: 15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

Genesis 19.16: 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

Genesis 19.17: 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Genesis 19.19: 19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Genesis 19.20: 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”

Genesis 19.21: 21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Genesis 19.22: 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.1

Genesis 19.24: 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

Genesis 19.25: 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

Genesis 19.26: 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19.27: 27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Genesis 19.28: 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Genesis 19.29: 29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 19.30: 30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Genesis 19.31: 31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

Genesis 19.32: 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

Genesis 19.33: 33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19.34: 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

Genesis 19.35: 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

Genesis 19.36: 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.

Genesis 19.37: 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Genesis 19.38: 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Genesis 20.1: 20Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Genesis 20.2: 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Genesis 20.3: 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”

Genesis 20.4: 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

Genesis 20.5: 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Genesis 20.6: 6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

Genesis 20.7: 7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

Genesis 20.8: 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

Genesis 20.9: 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

Genesis 20.10: 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

Genesis 20.11: 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

Genesis 20.12: 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20.13: 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

Genesis 20.14: 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

Genesis 20.15: 15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

Genesis 20.16: 16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

Genesis 20.17: 17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

Genesis 20.18: 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 21.1: 21Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 21.2: 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Genesis 21.3: 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 1

Genesis 21.4: 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 21.5: 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

Genesis 21.6: 6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Genesis 21.7: 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Genesis 21.8: 8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Genesis 21.9: 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Genesis 21.10: 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

Genesis 21.11: 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

Genesis 21.12: 12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

Genesis 21.13: 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

Genesis 21.14: 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21.15: 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21.16: 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Genesis 21.18: 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”

Genesis 21.19: 19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

Genesis 21.20: 20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

Genesis 21.21: 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 21.22: 22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

Genesis 21.23: 23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

Genesis 21.25: 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Genesis 21.26: 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

Genesis 21.27: 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

Genesis 21.29: 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”

Genesis 21.30: 30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

Genesis 21.31: 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,2 because they both swore an oath there.

Genesis 21.32: 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 21.33: 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 21.34: 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 22.1: 22After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

Genesis 22.2: 2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

Genesis 22.3: 3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

Genesis 22.4: 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

Genesis 22.5: 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”

Genesis 22.6: 6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

Genesis 22.8: 8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

Genesis 22.9: 9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

Genesis 22.10: 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

Genesis 22.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”

Genesis 22.12: 12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Genesis 22.13: 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22.14: 14 Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”.1 As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

Genesis 22.15: 15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

Genesis 22.16: 16 and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Genesis 22.17: 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 22.18: 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”

Genesis 22.19: 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Genesis 22.20: 20 After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Genesis 22.23: 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Genesis 22.24: 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 23.1: 23Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.

Genesis 23.2: 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Genesis 23.3: 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

Genesis 23.4: 4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 23.6: 6 “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

Genesis 23.7: 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.

Genesis 23.8: 8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

Genesis 23.9: 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”

Genesis 23.10: 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 23.11: 11 “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

Genesis 23.13: 13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

Genesis 23.15: 15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver1 between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

Genesis 23.16: 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

Genesis 23.17: 17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

Genesis 23.18: 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

Genesis 23.19: 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23.20: 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.

Genesis 24.1: 24Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24.2: 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 24.3: 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

Genesis 24.4: 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24.5: 5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”

Genesis 24.6: 6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.

Genesis 24.7: 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24.8: 8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”

Genesis 24.9: 9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24.10: 10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24.11: 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24.12: 12 He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24.13: 13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24.14: 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

Genesis 24.15: 15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

Genesis 24.16: 16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

Genesis 24.17: 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”

Genesis 24.18: 18 She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24.19: 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”

Genesis 24.20: 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

Genesis 24.21: 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.

Genesis 24.22: 22 As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel1 weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

Genesis 24.23: 23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”

Genesis 24.24: 24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

Genesis 24.25: 25 She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”

Genesis 24.27: 27 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Genesis 24.28: 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.

Genesis 24.29: 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

Genesis 24.30: 30 When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

Genesis 24.31: 31 He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

Genesis 24.32: 32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Genesis 24.33: 33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.”

Genesis 24.35: 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 24.36: 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

Genesis 24.37: 37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

Genesis 24.38: 38 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

Genesis 24.39: 39 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

Genesis 24.40: 40 He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.

Genesis 24.41: 41 Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’

Genesis 24.42: 42 I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

Genesis 24.43: 43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”

Genesis 24.44: 44 then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

Genesis 24.45: 45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

Genesis 24.46: 46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.

Genesis 24.47: 47 I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

Genesis 24.48: 48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

Genesis 24.49: 49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”

Genesis 24.50: 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

Genesis 24.51: 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

Genesis 24.52: 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

Genesis 24.53: 53 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

Genesis 24.54: 54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”

Genesis 24.55: 55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”

Genesis 24.56: 56 He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

Genesis 24.58: 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”

Genesis 24.59: 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

Genesis 24.60: 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 24.61: 61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

Genesis 24.62: 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

Genesis 24.63: 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.

Genesis 24.64: 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.

Genesis 24.65: 65 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?”

Genesis 24.67: 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 25.3: 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

Genesis 25.4: 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

Genesis 25.6: 6 but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.

Genesis 25.7: 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

Genesis 25.8: 8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25.9: 9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre,

Genesis 25.10: 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

Genesis 25.11: 11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 25.12: 12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

Genesis 25.13: 13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Genesis 25.16: 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

Genesis 25.17: 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25.18: 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Genesis 25.19: 19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Genesis 25.20: 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Genesis 25.21: 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Genesis 25.22: 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

Genesis 25.24: 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

Genesis 25.25: 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

Genesis 25.26: 26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

Genesis 25.27: 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Genesis 25.28: 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 25.29: 29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

Genesis 25.30: 30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.1

Genesis 25.32: 32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

Genesis 25.34: 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 26.1: 26There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Genesis 26.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

Genesis 26.3: 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 26.4: 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 26.5: 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Genesis 26.7: 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

Genesis 26.8: 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

Genesis 26.9: 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’”

Genesis 26.10: 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

Genesis 26.11: 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

Genesis 26.12: 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Genesis 26.13: 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

Genesis 26.14: 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Genesis 26.15: 15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

Genesis 26.16: 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

Genesis 26.17: 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

Genesis 26.18: 18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

Genesis 26.19: 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

Genesis 26.20: 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 26.21: 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

Genesis 26.22: 22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

Genesis 26.24: 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Genesis 26.25: 25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Genesis 26.26: 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

Genesis 26.27: 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

Genesis 26.28: 28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,

Genesis 26.29: 29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

Genesis 26.31: 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Genesis 26.32: 32 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

Genesis 26.33: 33 He called it “Shibah”.1 Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba”2 to this day.

Genesis 26.34: 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 27.1: 27When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?”

Genesis 27.2: 2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.

Genesis 27.3: 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.

Genesis 27.4: 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

Genesis 27.5: 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Genesis 27.6: 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Genesis 27.7: 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

Genesis 27.8: 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

Genesis 27.9: 9 Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

Genesis 27.10: 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

Genesis 27.11: 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27.12: 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

Genesis 27.13: 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

Genesis 27.14: 14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

Genesis 27.15: 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

Genesis 27.16: 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

Genesis 27.17: 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Genesis 27.19: 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

Genesis 27.20: 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”

Genesis 27.21: 21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Genesis 27.22: 22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Genesis 27.23: 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

Genesis 27.25: 25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”

Genesis 27.26: 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

Genesis 27.27: 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,

Genesis 27.30: 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 27.31: 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”

Genesis 27.33: 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

Genesis 27.34: 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

Genesis 27.35: 35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

Genesis 27.36: 36 He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Genesis 27.37: 37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

Genesis 27.38: 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Genesis 27.41: 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 27.42: 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

Genesis 27.43: 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

Genesis 27.44: 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

Genesis 27.45: 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

Genesis 27.46: 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Genesis 28.1: 28Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 28.2: 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Genesis 28.3: 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Genesis 28.4: 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 28.5: 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

Genesis 28.6: 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”

Genesis 28.7: 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

Genesis 28.8: 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

Genesis 28.9: 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

Genesis 28.11: 11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Genesis 28.12: 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 28.13: 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.

Genesis 28.14: 14 Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28.15: 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Genesis 28.16: 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

Genesis 28.17: 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Genesis 28.18: 18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

Genesis 28.19: 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 28.20: 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

Genesis 28.21: 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

Genesis 28.22: 22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

Genesis 29.1: 29Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

Genesis 29.2: 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.

Genesis 29.3: 3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.

They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”

Genesis 29.7: 7 He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”

Genesis 29.8: 8 They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”

Genesis 29.9: 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

Genesis 29.10: 10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

Genesis 29.12: 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Genesis 29.13: 13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Genesis 29.14: 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Genesis 29.15: 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

Genesis 29.16: 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29.17: 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

Genesis 29.18: 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Genesis 29.19: 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 29.20: 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Genesis 29.21: 21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Genesis 29.22: 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

Genesis 29.23: 23 In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.

Genesis 29.24: 24 Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

Genesis 29.25: 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

Genesis 29.26: 26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Genesis 29.27: 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

Genesis 29.28: 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

Genesis 29.29: 29 Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.

Genesis 29.30: 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Genesis 29.31: 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 29.32: 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

Genesis 29.33: 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

Genesis 29.34: 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

Genesis 29.35: 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Genesis 30.1: 30When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Genesis 30.2: 2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 30.3: 3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

Genesis 30.4: 4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 30.6: 6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

Genesis 30.7: 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30.8: 8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

Genesis 30.9: 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30.13: 13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

Genesis 30.14: 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30.15: 15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”

Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30.16: 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30.17: 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Genesis 30.18: 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

Genesis 30.20: 20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

Genesis 30.22: 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Genesis 30.23: 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

Genesis 30.24: 24 She named him Joseph,1 saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

Genesis 30.25: 25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Genesis 30.26: 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

Genesis 30.27: 27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

Genesis 30.29: 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

Genesis 30.30: 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

Genesis 30.32: 32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

Genesis 30.33: 33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

Genesis 30.35: 35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Genesis 30.36: 36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Genesis 30.37: 37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Genesis 30.38: 38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

Genesis 30.39: 39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 30.40: 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

Genesis 30.41: 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;

Genesis 30.42: 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Genesis 30.43: 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31.1: 31Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Genesis 31.2: 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Genesis 31.3: 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Genesis 31.4: 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

Genesis 31.5: 5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31.6: 6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Genesis 31.7: 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Genesis 31.8: 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

Genesis 31.9: 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

Genesis 31.10: 10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

Genesis 31.11: 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Genesis 31.12: 12 He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

Genesis 31.13: 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

Genesis 31.14: 14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

Genesis 31.15: 15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

Genesis 31.16: 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Genesis 31.17: 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

Genesis 31.18: 18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 31.19: 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim 1 that were her father’s.

Genesis 31.20: 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

Genesis 31.21: 21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31.23: 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31.24: 24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

Genesis 31.25: 25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31.26: 26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Genesis 31.27: 27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

Genesis 31.28: 28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

Genesis 31.29: 29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Genesis 31.30: 30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31.31: 31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

Genesis 31.32: 32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31.33: 33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

Genesis 31.34: 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.

Genesis 31.35: 35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

Genesis 31.36: 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

Genesis 31.37: 37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

Genesis 31.38: 38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

Genesis 31.39: 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31.40: 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31.41: 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31.42: 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31.43: 43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 31.44: 44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31.46: 46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Genesis 31.47: 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,2 but Jacob called it Galeed.3

Genesis 31.48: 48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

Genesis 31.49: 49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Genesis 31.50: 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31.51: 51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

Genesis 31.52: 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

Genesis 31.53: 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 31.54: 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

Genesis 31.55: 55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Genesis 32.2: 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32.3: 3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Genesis 32.4: 4 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

Genesis 32.5: 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 32.6: 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Genesis 32.7: 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Genesis 32.8: 8 and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”

Genesis 32.9: 9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’

Genesis 32.10: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Genesis 32.11: 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32.12: 12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”

Genesis 32.13: 13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

Genesis 32.14: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 32.15: 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

Genesis 32.16: 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

Genesis 32.17: 17 He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’

Genesis 32.18: 18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”

Genesis 32.19: 19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

Genesis 32.20: 20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

Genesis 32.21: 21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

Genesis 32.22: 22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 32.23: 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

Genesis 32.24: 24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32.25: 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.

Genesis 32.28: 28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Genesis 32.30: 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel;1 for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Genesis 32.31: 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

Genesis 32.32: 32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Genesis 33.1: 33Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.

Genesis 33.2: 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Genesis 33.3: 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Genesis 33.4: 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 33.5: 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?”

Genesis 33.6: 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33.7: 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33.8: 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”

Genesis 33.9: 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

Genesis 33.10: 10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Genesis 33.11: 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 33.12: 12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”

Genesis 33.13: 13 Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

Genesis 33.14: 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”

Genesis 33.15: 15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.”

Genesis 33.17: 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.1

Genesis 33.18: 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

Genesis 33.19: 19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 34.1: 34Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Genesis 34.2: 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 34.3: 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Genesis 34.4: 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34.5: 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

Genesis 34.7: 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.

Genesis 34.8: 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Genesis 34.9: 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34.10: 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

Genesis 34.11: 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

Genesis 34.12: 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34.13: 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Genesis 34.14: 14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

Genesis 34.15: 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

Genesis 34.16: 16 then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Genesis 34.17: 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister,1 and we will be gone.”

Genesis 34.19: 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

Genesis 34.20: 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34.21: 21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.

Genesis 34.22: 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Genesis 34.23: 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

Genesis 34.24: 24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34.25: 25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

Genesis 34.26: 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Genesis 34.27: 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34.28: 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

Genesis 34.29: 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

Genesis 34.30: 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

Genesis 34.31: 31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

Genesis 35.1: 35God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

Genesis 35.2: 2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

Genesis 35.3: 3 Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

Genesis 35.4: 4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

Genesis 35.5: 5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 35.6: 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

Genesis 35.7: 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Genesis 35.8: 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

Genesis 35.9: 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

Genesis 35.10: 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

Genesis 35.11: 11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Genesis 35.12: 12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”

Genesis 35.14: 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

Genesis 35.15: 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

Genesis 35.16: 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

Genesis 35.17: 17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

Genesis 35.18: 18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni,1 but his father named him Benjamin.2

Genesis 35.19: 19 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

Genesis 35.20: 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

Genesis 35.21: 21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

Genesis 35.22: 22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Genesis 35.23: 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 35.26: 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 35.27: 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

Genesis 35.29: 29 Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

Genesis 36.1: 36Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

Genesis 36.2: 2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;

Genesis 36.5: 5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36.6: 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

Genesis 36.7: 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.

Genesis 36.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

Genesis 36.10: 10 these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

Genesis 36.11: 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Genesis 36.12: 12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36.13: 13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36.14: 14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

Genesis 36.15: 15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

Genesis 36.16: 16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.

Genesis 36.17: 17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36.18: 18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36.19: 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

Genesis 36.20: 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Genesis 36.21: 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

Genesis 36.22: 22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.

Genesis 36.23: 23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

Genesis 36.24: 24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.

Genesis 36.25: 25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

Genesis 36.26: 26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

Genesis 36.29: 29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

Genesis 36.30: 30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

Genesis 36.31: 31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Genesis 36.32: 32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.

Genesis 36.33: 33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.34: 34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.35: 35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.

Genesis 36.37: 37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.38: 38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.39: 39 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

Genesis 36.40: 40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,

Genesis 36.43: 43 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Genesis 37.1: 37Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37.2: 2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

Genesis 37.3: 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.

Genesis 37.4: 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 37.5: 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

Genesis 37.6: 6 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

Genesis 37.7: 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Genesis 37.8: 8 His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

Genesis 37.9: 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Genesis 37.10: 10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”

Genesis 37.11: 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Genesis 37.13: 13 Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Genesis 37.14: 14 He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Genesis 37.15: 15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Genesis 37.16: 16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”

Genesis 37.17: 17 The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”

Genesis 37.18: 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Genesis 37.20: 20 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

Genesis 37.21: 21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

Genesis 37.22: 22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

Genesis 37.23: 23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

Genesis 37.24: 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

Genesis 37.25: 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Genesis 37.26: 26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37.27: 27 Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

Genesis 37.28: 28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37.29: 29 Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37.30: 30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

Genesis 37.31: 31 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

Genesis 37.32: 32 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Genesis 37.33: 33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

Genesis 37.34: 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37.35: 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol1 to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Genesis 37.36: 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

Genesis 38.1: 38At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Genesis 38.2: 2 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

Genesis 38.5: 5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.

Genesis 38.6: 6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Genesis 38.7: 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.

Genesis 38.8: 8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

Genesis 38.9: 9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

Genesis 38.10: 10 The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

Genesis 38.11: 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Genesis 38.12: 12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

Genesis 38.13: 13 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Genesis 38.14: 14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

Genesis 38.15: 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38.16: 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.

Genesis 38.19: 19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Genesis 38.20: 20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

Genesis 38.21: 21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”

Genesis 38.22: 22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”

Genesis 38.23: 23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

Genesis 38.24: 24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.”

Genesis 38.25: 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”

Genesis 38.26: 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.”

Genesis 38.28: 28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”

Genesis 38.29: 29 As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.1

Genesis 38.30: 30 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.2

Genesis 39.1: 39Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

Genesis 39.2: 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Genesis 39.3: 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

Genesis 39.4: 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Genesis 39.5: 5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

Genesis 39.6: 6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.

Genesis 39.7: 7 After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

Genesis 39.8: 8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

Genesis 39.9: 9 No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Genesis 39.10: 10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Genesis 39.11: 11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

Genesis 39.13: 13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

Genesis 39.14: 14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

Genesis 39.15: 15 When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

Genesis 39.17: 17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

Genesis 39.18: 18 and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

Genesis 39.19: 19 When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

Genesis 39.20: 20 Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

Genesis 39.21: 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Genesis 39.22: 22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

Genesis 39.23: 23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

Genesis 40.1: 40After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Genesis 40.2: 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

Genesis 40.3: 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Genesis 40.4: 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

Genesis 40.5: 5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

Genesis 40.6: 6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

Genesis 40.7: 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

Genesis 40.8: 8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.”

Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”

Genesis 40.9: 9 The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

Genesis 40.10: 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.

Genesis 40.11: 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”

Genesis 40.12: 12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

Genesis 40.13: 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.

Genesis 40.14: 14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

Genesis 40.15: 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

Genesis 40.16: 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

Genesis 40.17: 17 In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

Genesis 40.18: 18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 40.19: 19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

Genesis 40.20: 20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

Genesis 40.21: 21 He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

Genesis 40.22: 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Genesis 40.23: 23 Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Genesis 41.1: 41At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

Genesis 41.2: 2 Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

Genesis 41.3: 3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

Genesis 41.4: 4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

Genesis 41.5: 5 He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

Genesis 41.6: 6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Genesis 41.7: 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

Genesis 41.8: 8 In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41.9: 9 Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

Genesis 41.10: 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.

Genesis 41.11: 11 We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.

Genesis 41.12: 12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.

Genesis 41.13: 13 As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

Genesis 41.14: 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41.15: 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

Genesis 41.16: 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

Genesis 41.17: 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;

Genesis 41.18: 18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;

Genesis 41.19: 19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

Genesis 41.21: 21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Genesis 41.22: 22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;

Genesis 41.23: 23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Genesis 41.24: 24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

Genesis 41.25: 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41.26: 26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

Genesis 41.27: 27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

Genesis 41.28: 28 That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41.29: 29 Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.

Genesis 41.30: 30 Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

Genesis 41.31: 31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

Genesis 41.32: 32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Genesis 41.33: 33 “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.34: 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.

Genesis 41.35: 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Genesis 41.36: 36 The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”

Genesis 41.37: 37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

Genesis 41.38: 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

Genesis 41.39: 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

Genesis 41.40: 40 You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

Genesis 41.41: 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41.42: 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

Genesis 41.43: 43 He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.44: 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41.45: 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.46: 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.48: 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.

Genesis 41.49: 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

Genesis 41.50: 50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

Genesis 41.51: 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,1 “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

Genesis 41.52: 52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim:2 “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 41.53: 53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

Genesis 41.54: 54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 41.55: 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

Genesis 41.56: 56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.57: 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Genesis 42.1: 42Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

Genesis 42.2: 2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

Genesis 42.4: 4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Genesis 42.5: 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42.6: 6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

Genesis 42.7: 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?”

Genesis 42.8: 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

Genesis 42.9: 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

Genesis 42.10: 10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

Genesis 42.11: 11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

Genesis 42.12: 12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Genesis 42.13: 13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

Genesis 42.14: 14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

Genesis 42.15: 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42.16: 16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

Genesis 42.18: 18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Genesis 42.19: 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

Genesis 42.20: 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.”

Genesis 42.21: 21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

Genesis 42.22: 22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

Genesis 42.23: 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Genesis 42.24: 24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

Genesis 42.25: 25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

Genesis 42.26: 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

Genesis 42.27: 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 42.28: 28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Genesis 42.29: 29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

Genesis 42.30: 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

Genesis 42.32: 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Genesis 42.33: 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

Genesis 42.34: 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”

Genesis 42.35: 35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

Genesis 42.36: 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

Genesis 42.37: 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

Genesis 42.38: 38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”1

Genesis 43.2: 2 When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 43.3: 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 43.4: 4 If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

Genesis 43.5: 5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

Genesis 43.6: 6 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

Genesis 43.7: 7 They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”

Genesis 43.8: 8 Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

Genesis 43.9: 9 I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;

Genesis 43.10: 10 for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”

Genesis 43.11: 11 Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

Genesis 43.12: 12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 43.14: 14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Genesis 43.15: 15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

Genesis 43.16: 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

Genesis 43.17: 17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

Genesis 43.18: 18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

Genesis 43.19: 19 They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

Genesis 43.20: 20 and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

Genesis 43.21: 21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

Genesis 43.22: 22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”

Genesis 43.23: 23 He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

Genesis 43.24: 24 The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

Genesis 43.25: 25 They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

Genesis 43.26: 26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.

Genesis 43.27: 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

Genesis 43.28: 28 They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

Genesis 43.29: 29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

Genesis 43.30: 30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

Genesis 43.31: 31 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

Genesis 43.32: 32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

Genesis 43.33: 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.

Genesis 43.34: 34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

Genesis 44.1: 44He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Genesis 44.2: 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

Genesis 44.3: 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

Genesis 44.4: 4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

Genesis 44.5: 5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”

Genesis 44.7: 7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

Genesis 44.8: 8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?

Genesis 44.9: 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”

Genesis 44.10: 10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”

Genesis 44.11: 11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

Genesis 44.12: 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44.13: 13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Genesis 44.14: 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

Genesis 44.15: 15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”

Genesis 44.16: 16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

Genesis 44.17: 17 He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Genesis 44.18: 18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

Genesis 44.19: 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

Genesis 44.20: 20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44.21: 21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

Genesis 44.22: 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Genesis 44.23: 23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

Genesis 44.24: 24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Genesis 44.26: 26 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’

Genesis 44.27: 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 44.28: 28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

Genesis 44.29: 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’1

Genesis 44.30: 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

Genesis 44.31: 31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.2

Genesis 44.32: 32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

Genesis 44.33: 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

Genesis 44.34: 34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

Genesis 45.1: 45Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Genesis 45.2: 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Genesis 45.3: 3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?”

They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Genesis 45.5: 5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 45.6: 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

Genesis 45.7: 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45.8: 8 So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45.9: 9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.

Genesis 45.10: 10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

Genesis 45.11: 11 There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

Genesis 45.12: 12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

Genesis 45.13: 13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

Genesis 45.14: 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Genesis 45.15: 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 45.16: 16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Genesis 45.17: 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 45.18: 18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

Genesis 45.19: 19 Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Genesis 45.20: 20 Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

Genesis 45.21: 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

Genesis 45.22: 22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

Genesis 45.23: 23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

Genesis 45.24: 24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

Genesis 45.25: 25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

Genesis 45.26: 26 They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Genesis 45.27: 27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

Genesis 45.28: 28 Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Genesis 46.1: 46Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 46.2: 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”

Genesis 46.3: 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

Genesis 46.4: 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”

Genesis 46.5: 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Genesis 46.6: 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,

Genesis 46.7: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.

Genesis 46.8: 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

Genesis 46.10: 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 46.12: 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Genesis 46.15: 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

Genesis 46.16: 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Genesis 46.17: 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

Genesis 46.18: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

Genesis 46.20: 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

Genesis 46.21: 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Genesis 46.22: 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

Genesis 46.25: 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

Genesis 46.26: 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

Genesis 46.27: 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

Genesis 46.28: 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

Genesis 46.29: 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Genesis 46.30: 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

Genesis 46.31: 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

Genesis 46.32: 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’

Genesis 46.33: 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’

Genesis 46.34: 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 47.1: 47Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 47.2: 2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”

Genesis 47.4: 4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 47.5: 5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Genesis 47.6: 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

Genesis 47.7: 7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47.9: 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Genesis 47.10: 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Genesis 47.11: 11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Genesis 47.12: 12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Genesis 47.13: 13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Genesis 47.14: 14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 47.15: 15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”

Genesis 47.16: 16 Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

Genesis 47.17: 17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

Genesis 47.18: 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

Genesis 47.19: 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

Genesis 47.20: 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47.21: 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

Genesis 47.22: 22 Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

Genesis 47.23: 23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Genesis 47.24: 24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

Genesis 47.25: 25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

Genesis 47.26: 26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47.27: 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47.28: 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Genesis 47.29: 29 The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

Genesis 47.30: 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.”

Genesis 47.31: 31 Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

Genesis 48.1: 48After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48.2: 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

Genesis 48.3: 3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

Genesis 48.4: 4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

Genesis 48.5: 5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

Genesis 48.6: 6 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

Genesis 48.7: 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

Genesis 48.9: 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.”

Genesis 48.10: 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Genesis 48.11: 11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

Genesis 48.12: 12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 48.13: 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.

Genesis 48.14: 14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Genesis 48.17: 17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Genesis 48.18: 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Genesis 48.19: 19 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

Genesis 48.20: 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Genesis 48.21: 21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 48.22: 22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

Genesis 49.1: 49Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

Genesis 49.3: 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength;

Genesis 49.26: 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,

Genesis 49.28: 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

Genesis 49.29: 29 He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49.30: 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

Genesis 49.31: 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

Genesis 49.32: 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”

Genesis 49.33: 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 50.1: 50Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

Genesis 50.2: 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50.3: 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

Genesis 50.4: 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Genesis 50.5: 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

Genesis 50.6: 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

Genesis 50.7: 7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Genesis 50.8: 8 All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50.9: 9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

Genesis 50.10: 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

Genesis 50.11: 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50.13: 13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.

Genesis 50.14: 14 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Genesis 50.15: 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

Genesis 50.16: 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Genesis 50.17: 17 ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Genesis 50.18: 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Genesis 50.19: 19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50.20: 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Genesis 50.21: 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50.22: 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

Genesis 50.23: 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Genesis 50.24: 24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 50.25: 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Genesis 50.26: 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 1.1: 1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

Exodus 1.5: 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Exodus 1.7: 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1.9: 9 He said to his people, “Behold,1 the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

Exodus 1.10: 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

Exodus 1.11: 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1.12: 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Exodus 1.14: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Exodus 1.15: 15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

Exodus 1.16: 16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Exodus 1.17: 17 But the midwives feared God,2 and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Exodus 1.18: 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”

Exodus 1.19: 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Exodus 1.20: 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Exodus 1.22: 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Exodus 2.1: 2A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

Exodus 2.2: 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

Exodus 2.3: 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Exodus 2.5: 5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.

Exodus 2.6: 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Exodus 2.7: 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

Exodus 2.9: 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.”

Exodus 2.10: 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,1 and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Exodus 2.11: 11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

Exodus 2.12: 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2.13: 13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”

Exodus 2.14: 14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?”

Exodus 2.15: 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2.16: 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Exodus 2.17: 17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Exodus 2.18: 18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”

Exodus 2.19: 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”

Exodus 2.20: 20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

Exodus 2.21: 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

Exodus 2.22: 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,2 for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2.23: 23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 2.24: 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2.25: 25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

Exodus 3.1: 3Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

Exodus 3.2: 2 Yahweh’s1 angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus 3.3: 3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Exodus 3.4: 4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”

Exodus 3.5: 5 He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Exodus 3.6: 6 Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

Exodus 3.7: 7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 3.8: 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 3.9: 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 3.10: 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Exodus 3.11: 11 Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Exodus 3.12: 12 He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Exodus 3.13: 13 Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

Exodus 3.14: 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3.15: 15 God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

Exodus 3.16: 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Exodus 3.17: 17 I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

Exodus 3.18: 18 They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

Exodus 3.19: 19 I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 3.20: 20 I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

Exodus 3.21: 21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

Exodus 3.22: 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Exodus 4.1: 4Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

Exodus 4.4: 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”

He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

Exodus 4.5: 5 “This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Exodus 4.6: 6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”

He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

Exodus 4.8: 8 “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Exodus 4.9: 9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”

Exodus 4.10: 10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord,1 I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

Exodus 4.11: 11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

Exodus 4.12: 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

Exodus 4.14: 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

Exodus 4.15: 15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

Exodus 4.16: 16 He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

Exodus 4.17: 17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

Exodus 4.18: 18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”

Exodus 4.19: 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

Exodus 4.20: 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.

Exodus 4.21: 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

Exodus 4.22: 22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Exodus 4.23: 23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”

Exodus 4.24: 24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

Exodus 4.25: 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Exodus 4.26: 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

Exodus 4.27: 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”

Exodus 4.28: 28 Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

Exodus 4.29: 29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

Exodus 4.30: 30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

Exodus 4.31: 31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Exodus 5.1: 5Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”

Exodus 5.2: 2 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Exodus 5.3: 3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”

Exodus 5.4: 4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”

Exodus 5.5: 5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”

Exodus 5.6: 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

Exodus 5.7: 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 5.8: 8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’

Exodus 5.9: 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

Exodus 5.10: 10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5.11: 11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”

Exodus 5.12: 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Exodus 5.13: 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”

Exodus 5.14: 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”

Exodus 5.15: 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

Exodus 5.16: 16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

Exodus 5.17: 17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

Exodus 5.18: 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”

Exodus 5.19: 19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”

Exodus 5.20: 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 5.21: 21 They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”

Exodus 5.22: 22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

Exodus 5.23: 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”

Exodus 6.1: 6Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”

Exodus 6.3: 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

Exodus 6.4: 4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

Exodus 6.5: 5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

Exodus 6.6: 6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.

Exodus 6.7: 7 I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 6.8: 8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”

Exodus 6.9: 9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Exodus 6.11: 11 “Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”

Exodus 6.12: 12 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

Exodus 6.13: 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 6.14: 14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

Exodus 6.15: 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

Exodus 6.16: 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

Exodus 6.17: 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

Exodus 6.18: 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

Exodus 6.19: 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

Exodus 6.20: 20 Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.

Exodus 6.23: 23 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Exodus 6.24: 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

Exodus 6.25: 25 Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

Exodus 6.26: 26 These are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”

Exodus 6.27: 27 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 6.29: 29 Yahweh said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you.”

Exodus 6.30: 30 Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

Exodus 7.1: 7Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

Exodus 7.2: 2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 7.3: 3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7.4: 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

Exodus 7.5: 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

Exodus 7.7: 7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Exodus 7.9: 9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’”

Exodus 7.10: 10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

Exodus 7.11: 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

Exodus 7.12: 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

Exodus 7.13: 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exodus 7.14: 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

Exodus 7.15: 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand.

Exodus 7.16: 16 You shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened.”

Exodus 7.17: 17 Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

Exodus 7.18: 18 The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”

Exodus 7.19: 19 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

Exodus 7.20: 20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

Exodus 7.21: 21 The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7.22: 22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exodus 7.23: 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Exodus 7.24: 24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.

Exodus 8.1: 8Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 8.2: 2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.

Exodus 8.3: 3 The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

Exodus 8.4: 4 The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”

Exodus 8.5: 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 8.6: 6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8.7: 7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8.8: 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Exodus 8.9: 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”

Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

Exodus 8.11: 11 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”

Exodus 8.12: 12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

Exodus 8.13: 13 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.

Exodus 8.15: 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exodus 8.16: 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 8.17: 17 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8.18: 18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.

Exodus 8.19: 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exodus 8.20: 20 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 8.21: 21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.

Exodus 8.22: 22 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.

Exodus 8.23: 23 I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”

Exodus 8.24: 24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

Exodus 8.25: 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”

Exodus 8.26: 26 Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us?

Exodus 8.27: 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”

Exodus 8.28: 28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”

Exodus 8.29: 29 Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Exodus 8.31: 31 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.

Exodus 8.32: 32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

Exodus 9.1: 9Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 9.3: 3 behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

Exodus 9.4: 4 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”

Exodus 9.5: 5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”

Exodus 9.6: 6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

Exodus 9.7: 7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.

Exodus 9.8: 8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

Exodus 9.9: 9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 9.10: 10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking on man and on animal.

Exodus 9.11: 11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

Exodus 9.12: 12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

Exodus 9.13: 13 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 9.14: 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Exodus 9.15: 15 For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

Exodus 9.16: 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Exodus 9.17: 17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Exodus 9.18: 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.

Exodus 9.19: 19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.”’”

Exodus 9.20: 20 Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

Exodus 9.21: 21 Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Exodus 9.22: 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 9.23: 23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9.24: 24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Exodus 9.25: 25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

Exodus 9.26: 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

Exodus 9.27: 27 Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Exodus 9.28: 28 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

Exodus 9.29: 29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Exodus 9.30: 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”

Exodus 9.31: 31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.

Exodus 9.32: 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.

Exodus 9.33: 33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

Exodus 9.34: 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

Exodus 9.35: 35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

Exodus 10.1: 10Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;

Exodus 10.2: 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

Exodus 10.3: 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 10.4: 4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

Exodus 10.5: 5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

Exodus 10.6: 6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10.7: 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Exodus 10.8: 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”

Exodus 10.9: 9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”

Exodus 10.10: 10 He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

Exodus 10.11: 11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Exodus 10.12: 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

Exodus 10.13: 13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Exodus 10.14: 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.

Exodus 10.15: 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10.16: 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

Exodus 10.17: 17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

Exodus 10.19: 19 Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.1 There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Exodus 10.20: 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.

Exodus 10.21: 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”

Exodus 10.22: 22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Exodus 10.23: 23 They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Exodus 10.24: 24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”

Exodus 10.25: 25 Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

Exodus 10.26: 26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”

Exodus 10.27: 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.

Exodus 10.28: 28 Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”

Exodus 10.29: 29 Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”

Exodus 11.1: 11Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.

Exodus 11.2: 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

Exodus 11.3: 3 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.

Exodus 11.4: 4 Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,

Exodus 11.5: 5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.

Exodus 11.6: 6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.

Exodus 11.7: 7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

Exodus 11.8: 8 All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Exodus 11.9: 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 11.10: 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 12.2: 2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12.3: 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

Exodus 12.4: 4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.

Exodus 12.5: 5 Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.

Exodus 12.6: 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

Exodus 12.7: 7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

Exodus 12.8: 8 They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

Exodus 12.9: 9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

Exodus 12.10: 10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

Exodus 12.11: 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

Exodus 12.12: 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

Exodus 12.13: 13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12.14: 14 This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

Exodus 12.15: 15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12.16: 16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.

Exodus 12.17: 17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

Exodus 12.18: 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

Exodus 12.19: 19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

Exodus 12.20: 20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

Exodus 12.21: 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

Exodus 12.22: 22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Exodus 12.23: 23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

Exodus 12.24: 24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

Exodus 12.25: 25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

Exodus 12.26: 26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

Exodus 12.27: 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”

Exodus 12.28: 28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Exodus 12.29: 29 At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

Exodus 12.30: 30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Exodus 12.31: 31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

Exodus 12.32: 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

Exodus 12.33: 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

Exodus 12.34: 34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

Exodus 12.35: 35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

Exodus 12.36: 36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.

Exodus 12.37: 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.

Exodus 12.38: 38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

Exodus 12.39: 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.

Exodus 12.40: 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Exodus 12.41: 41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12.42: 42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

Exodus 12.43: 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

Exodus 12.44: 44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

Exodus 12.46: 46 It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.

Exodus 12.48: 48 When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

Exodus 12.49: 49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”

Exodus 12.50: 50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Exodus 12.51: 51 That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Exodus 13.2: 2 “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

Exodus 13.3: 3 Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Exodus 13.5: 5 It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

Exodus 13.6: 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.

Exodus 13.7: 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.

Exodus 13.8: 8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

Exodus 13.9: 9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 13.10: 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

Exodus 13.11: 11 “It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you,

Exodus 13.12: 12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s.

Exodus 13.13: 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

Exodus 13.14: 14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Exodus 13.15: 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

Exodus 13.16: 16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”

Exodus 13.17: 17 When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;

Exodus 13.18: 18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 13.19: 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”

Exodus 13.20: 20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Exodus 13.21: 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:

Exodus 13.22: 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.

Exodus 14.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.

Exodus 14.3: 3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

Exodus 14.4: 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

Exodus 14.5: 5 The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

Exodus 14.7: 7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.

Exodus 14.8: 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.1

Exodus 14.9: 9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

Exodus 14.10: 10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

Exodus 14.11: 11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

Exodus 14.12: 12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 14.13: 13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.

Exodus 14.15: 15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Exodus 14.16: 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 14.17: 17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

Exodus 14.18: 18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”

Exodus 14.19: 19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

Exodus 14.20: 20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.

Exodus 14.21: 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Exodus 14.22: 22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exodus 14.23: 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

Exodus 14.24: 24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

Exodus 14.25: 25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

Exodus 14.26: 26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”

Exodus 14.27: 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

Exodus 14.28: 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

Exodus 14.29: 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exodus 14.30: 30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

Exodus 14.31: 31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

Exodus 15.1: 15Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,

Exodus 15.7: 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.

Exodus 15.9: 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.

Exodus 15.13: 13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.

Exodus 15.17: 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,

Exodus 15.19: 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

Exodus 15.20: 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Exodus 15.22: 22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Exodus 15.23: 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.1

Exodus 15.24: 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Exodus 15.25: 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

Exodus 15.26: 26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Exodus 15.27: 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.

Exodus 16.1: 16They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16.2: 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Exodus 16.3: 3 and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Exodus 16.4: 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

Exodus 16.5: 5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

Exodus 16.6: 6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16.7: 7 In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”

Exodus 16.8: 8 Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

Exodus 16.9: 9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”

Exodus 16.10: 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.

Exodus 16.12: 12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’”

Exodus 16.13: 13 In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

Exodus 16.14: 14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

Exodus 16.15: 15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

Exodus 16.16: 16 “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer1 a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’”

Exodus 16.17: 17 The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.

Exodus 16.18: 18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating.

Exodus 16.19: 19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”

Exodus 16.20: 20 Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

Exodus 16.21: 21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

Exodus 16.22: 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

Exodus 16.23: 23 He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”

Exodus 16.24: 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.

Exodus 16.25: 25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.

Exodus 16.26: 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”

Exodus 16.27: 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

Exodus 16.28: 28 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Exodus 16.29: 29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

Exodus 16.31: 31 The house of Israel called its name “Manna”,2 and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Exodus 16.32: 32 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 16.33: 33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”

Exodus 16.34: 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

Exodus 16.35: 35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 17.1: 17All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

Exodus 17.2: 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Exodus 17.3: 3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

Exodus 17.4: 4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Exodus 17.5: 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

Exodus 17.6: 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 17.7: 7 He called the name of the place Massah,1 and Meribah,2 because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

Exodus 17.9: 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”

Exodus 17.10: 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Exodus 17.11: 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Exodus 17.12: 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

Exodus 17.13: 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Exodus 17.14: 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

Exodus 17.15: 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.3

Exodus 17.16: 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”

Exodus 18.1: 18Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 18.2: 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,

Exodus 18.3: 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,1 for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.

Exodus 18.4: 4 The name of the other was Eliezer,2 for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”

Exodus 18.5: 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.

Exodus 18.6: 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”

Exodus 18.7: 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

Exodus 18.8: 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

Exodus 18.9: 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

Exodus 18.10: 10 Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

Exodus 18.11: 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

Exodus 18.12: 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Exodus 18.13: 13 On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

Exodus 18.14: 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”

Exodus 18.15: 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Exodus 18.16: 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

Exodus 18.17: 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

Exodus 18.18: 18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

Exodus 18.19: 19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

Exodus 18.20: 20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Exodus 18.21: 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 18.22: 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

Exodus 18.23: 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

Exodus 18.24: 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

Exodus 18.25: 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 18.26: 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Exodus 18.27: 27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

Exodus 19.1: 19In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 19.2: 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

Exodus 19.3: 3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

Exodus 19.4: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

Exodus 19.5: 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Exodus 19.6: 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

Exodus 19.7: 7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

Exodus 19.8: 8 All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”

Exodus 19.9: 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

Exodus 19.10: 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

Exodus 19.11: 11 and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

Exodus 19.12: 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 19.13: 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.”

Exodus 19.14: 14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19.15: 15 He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

Exodus 19.16: 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Exodus 19.17: 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

Exodus 19.18: 18 All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Exodus 19.19: 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

Exodus 19.20: 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Exodus 19.21: 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exodus 19.22: 22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”

Exodus 19.23: 23 Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’”

Exodus 19.24: 24 Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”

Exodus 20.2: 2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 20.4: 4 “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exodus 20.5: 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 20.6: 6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20.7: 7 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God,2 for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

Exodus 20.10: 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

Exodus 20.11: 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

Exodus 20.12: 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Exodus 20.17: 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Exodus 20.18: 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

Exodus 20.19: 19 They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”

Exodus 20.20: 20 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

Exodus 20.21: 21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

Exodus 20.22: 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

Exodus 20.23: 23 You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

Exodus 20.24: 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

Exodus 20.25: 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

Exodus 20.26: 26 You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’

Exodus 21.2: 2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Exodus 21.3: 3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21.4: 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

Exodus 21.5: 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

Exodus 21.6: 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Exodus 21.7: 7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

Exodus 21.8: 8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Exodus 21.9: 9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

Exodus 21.10: 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

Exodus 21.11: 11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

Exodus 21.12: 12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

Exodus 21.13: 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

Exodus 21.14: 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Exodus 21.15: 15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21.16: 16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21.17: 17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21.18: 18 “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

Exodus 21.19: 19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

Exodus 21.20: 20 “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21.21: 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.

Exodus 21.22: 22 “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

Exodus 21.26: 26 “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

Exodus 21.27: 27 If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.

Exodus 21.28: 28 “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

Exodus 21.29: 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

Exodus 21.30: 30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.

Exodus 21.31: 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

Exodus 21.32: 32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels1 of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 21.33: 33 “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

Exodus 21.34: 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

Exodus 21.35: 35 “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

Exodus 21.36: 36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

Exodus 22.1: 22“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Exodus 22.2: 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

Exodus 22.3: 3 If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exodus 22.4: 4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

Exodus 22.5: 5 “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

Exodus 22.6: 6 “If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

Exodus 22.7: 7 “If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

Exodus 22.8: 8 If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

Exodus 22.9: 9 For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

Exodus 22.10: 10 “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

Exodus 22.11: 11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

Exodus 22.12: 12 But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its owner.

Exodus 22.13: 13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

Exodus 22.14: 14 “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

Exodus 22.15: 15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

Exodus 22.16: 16 “If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Exodus 22.17: 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Exodus 22.19: 19 “Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 22.20: 20 “He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

Exodus 22.21: 21 “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22.22: 22 “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22.23: 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22.24: 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Exodus 22.25: 25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

Exodus 22.26: 26 If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

Exodus 22.27: 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Exodus 22.28: 28 “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Exodus 22.29: 29 “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.

Exodus 22.30: 30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

Exodus 22.31: 31 “You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

Exodus 23.1: 23“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Exodus 23.2: 2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Exodus 23.4: 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

Exodus 23.5: 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

Exodus 23.6: 6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Exodus 23.7: 7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

Exodus 23.8: 8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Exodus 23.9: 9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23.10: 10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

Exodus 23.11: 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

Exodus 23.12: 12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

Exodus 23.13: 13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

Exodus 23.15: 15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

Exodus 23.16: 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

Exodus 23.17: 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

Exodus 23.18: 18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.

Exodus 23.19: 19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.

Exodus 23.20: 20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23.21: 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

Exodus 23.22: 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

Exodus 23.23: 23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

Exodus 23.24: 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Exodus 23.25: 25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Exodus 23.26: 26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Exodus 23.27: 27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

Exodus 23.28: 28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

Exodus 23.29: 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

Exodus 23.30: 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

Exodus 23.31: 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Exodus 23.33: 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Exodus 24.1: 24He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Exodus 24.2: 2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”

Exodus 24.3: 3 Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

Exodus 24.4: 4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24.5: 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

Exodus 24.6: 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Exodus 24.7: 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient.”

Exodus 24.8: 8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

Exodus 24.9: 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

Exodus 24.10: 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire 1 stone, like the skies for clearness.

Exodus 24.11: 11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

Exodus 24.12: 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

Exodus 24.13: 13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

Exodus 24.14: 14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

Exodus 24.15: 15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exodus 24.16: 16 Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.

Exodus 24.17: 17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 24.18: 18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 25.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Exodus 25.3: 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,

Exodus 25.6: 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

Exodus 25.7: 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

Exodus 25.9: 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

Exodus 25.10: 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits,2 its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

Exodus 25.11: 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25.12: 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

Exodus 25.13: 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 25.14: 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

Exodus 25.15: 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

Exodus 25.16: 16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.

Exodus 25.17: 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

Exodus 25.18: 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

Exodus 25.19: 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

Exodus 25.20: 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 25.21: 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.

Exodus 25.22: 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

Exodus 25.23: 23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.

Exodus 25.24: 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25.25: 25 You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

Exodus 25.26: 26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

Exodus 25.27: 27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 25.28: 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

Exodus 25.29: 29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

Exodus 25.30: 30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

Exodus 25.31: 31 “You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

Exodus 25.32: 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;

Exodus 25.33: 33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;

Exodus 25.34: 34 and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

Exodus 25.35: 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.

Exodus 25.36: 36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

Exodus 25.37: 37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

Exodus 25.39: 39 It shall be made of a talent3 of pure gold, with all these accessories.

Exodus 25.40: 40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Exodus 26.1: 26“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.

Exodus 26.2: 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,1 and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.

Exodus 26.3: 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

Exodus 26.4: 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.

Exodus 26.5: 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another.

Exodus 26.6: 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.

Exodus 26.7: 7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.

Exodus 26.8: 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.

Exodus 26.9: 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.

Exodus 26.10: 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.

Exodus 26.11: 11 You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

Exodus 26.12: 12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26.13: 13 The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

Exodus 26.14: 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

Exodus 26.15: 15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

Exodus 26.16: 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

Exodus 26.17: 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26.18: 18 You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.

Exodus 26.19: 19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

Exodus 26.20: 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,

Exodus 26.21: 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Exodus 26.22: 22 For the far side of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.

Exodus 26.23: 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.

Exodus 26.24: 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

Exodus 26.25: 25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Exodus 26.26: 26 “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26.27: 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side westward.

Exodus 26.28: 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

Exodus 26.29: 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.

Exodus 26.30: 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Exodus 26.31: 31 “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.

Exodus 26.32: 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.

Exodus 26.33: 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.

Exodus 26.34: 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.

Exodus 26.35: 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.

Exodus 26.36: 36 “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.

Exodus 26.37: 37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

Exodus 27.1: 27“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits1 long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.2

Exodus 27.2: 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.

Exodus 27.3: 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.

Exodus 27.4: 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

Exodus 27.5: 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

Exodus 27.6: 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

Exodus 27.7: 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.

Exodus 27.8: 8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

Exodus 27.9: 9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.

Exodus 27.10: 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

Exodus 27.11: 11 Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Exodus 27.12: 12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

Exodus 27.13: 13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

Exodus 27.14: 14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 27.15: 15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 27.16: 16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

Exodus 27.17: 17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.

Exodus 27.18: 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.

Exodus 27.19: 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.

Exodus 27.20: 20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

Exodus 27.21: 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Exodus 28.1: 28“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Exodus 28.2: 2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

Exodus 28.3: 3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 28.4: 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 28.5: 5 They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

Exodus 28.6: 6 “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.

Exodus 28.7: 7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.

Exodus 28.8: 8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 28.9: 9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.

Exodus 28.10: 10 Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

Exodus 28.11: 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

Exodus 28.12: 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.

Exodus 28.14: 14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.

Exodus 28.15: 15 “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.

Exodus 28.16: 16 It shall be square and folded double; a span1 shall be its length, and a span its width.

Exodus 28.17: 17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

Exodus 28.20: 20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

Exodus 28.21: 21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

Exodus 28.22: 22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

Exodus 28.23: 23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28.24: 24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28.25: 25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.

Exodus 28.26: 26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.

Exodus 28.27: 27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

Exodus 28.28: 28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.

Exodus 28.29: 29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.

Exodus 28.30: 30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

Exodus 28.32: 32 It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.

Exodus 28.33: 33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:

Exodus 28.34: 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

Exodus 28.35: 35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.

Exodus 28.36: 36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’

Exodus 28.37: 37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.

Exodus 28.38: 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

Exodus 28.39: 39 You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

Exodus 28.40: 40 “You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.

Exodus 28.41: 41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 28.42: 42 You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.

Exodus 28.43: 43 They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.

Exodus 29.1: 29“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,

Exodus 29.2: 2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.

Exodus 29.3: 3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

Exodus 29.4: 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

Exodus 29.5: 5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

Exodus 29.6: 6 You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

Exodus 29.7: 7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

Exodus 29.9: 9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Exodus 29.10: 10 “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

Exodus 29.11: 11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 29.12: 12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

Exodus 29.13: 13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

Exodus 29.14: 14 But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.

Exodus 29.15: 15 “You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

Exodus 29.16: 16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

Exodus 29.17: 17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

Exodus 29.18: 18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29.19: 19 “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

Exodus 29.20: 20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

Exodus 29.21: 21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Exodus 29.22: 22 Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

Exodus 29.23: 23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

Exodus 29.24: 24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Exodus 29.25: 25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29.26: 26 “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion.

Exodus 29.27: 27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.

Exodus 29.28: 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

Exodus 29.29: 29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

Exodus 29.30: 30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

Exodus 29.31: 31 “You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place.

Exodus 29.32: 32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 29.33: 33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

Exodus 29.34: 34 If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

Exodus 29.35: 35 “You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

Exodus 29.36: 36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

Exodus 29.37: 37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Exodus 29.38: 38 “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

Exodus 29.39: 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;

Exodus 29.40: 40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah1 of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin2 of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

Exodus 29.41: 41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29.42: 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

Exodus 29.43: 43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

Exodus 29.44: 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 29.45: 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Exodus 29.46: 46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.

Exodus 30.1: 30“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

Exodus 30.2: 2 Its length shall be a cubit,1 and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

Exodus 30.3: 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 30.4: 4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

Exodus 30.5: 5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 30.6: 6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.

Exodus 30.7: 7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

Exodus 30.8: 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

Exodus 30.9: 9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

Exodus 30.10: 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

Exodus 30.12: 12 “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.

Exodus 30.13: 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel2 of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs3); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

Exodus 30.14: 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

Exodus 30.15: 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,4 when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

Exodus 30.16: 16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”

Exodus 30.18: 18 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

Exodus 30.19: 19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

Exodus 30.20: 20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 30.21: 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”

Exodus 30.23: 23 “Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels;5 and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

Exodus 30.24: 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin6 of olive oil.

Exodus 30.25: 25 You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

Exodus 30.26: 26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant,

Exodus 30.27: 27 the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

Exodus 30.28: 28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

Exodus 30.29: 29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

Exodus 30.30: 30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 30.31: 31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

Exodus 30.32: 32 It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.

Exodus 30.33: 33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”

Exodus 30.34: 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each.

Exodus 30.35: 35 You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Exodus 30.36: 36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

Exodus 30.37: 37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

Exodus 30.38: 38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”

Exodus 31.2: 2 “Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Exodus 31.3: 3 I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

Exodus 31.4: 4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

Exodus 31.5: 5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.

Exodus 31.6: 6 Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

Exodus 31.7: 7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,

Exodus 31.8: 8 the table and its vessels, the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,

Exodus 31.9: 9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,

Exodus 31.10: 10 the finely worked garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s office—

Exodus 31.11: 11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”

Exodus 31.13: 13 “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

Exodus 31.14: 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Exodus 31.15: 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 31.16: 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 31.17: 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”

Exodus 31.18: 18 When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

Exodus 32.1: 32When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Exodus 32.2: 2 Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”

Exodus 32.3: 3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

Exodus 32.4: 4 He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 32.5: 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”

Exodus 32.6: 6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus 32.7: 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

Exodus 32.8: 8 They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 32.9: 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 32.10: 10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

Exodus 32.11: 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32.12: 12 Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.

Exodus 32.13: 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring1 as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

Exodus 32.14: 14 So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.

Exodus 32.15: 15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.

Exodus 32.16: 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Exodus 32.17: 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”

Exodus 32.18: 18 He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

Exodus 32.19: 19 As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

Exodus 32.20: 20 He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

Exodus 32.21: 21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

Exodus 32.22: 22 Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Exodus 32.23: 23 For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

Exodus 32.24: 24 I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

Exodus 32.25: 25 When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),

Exodus 32.26: 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!”

Exodus 32.27: 27 He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”

Exodus 32.28: 28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day.

Exodus 32.29: 29 Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”

Exodus 32.30: 30 On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

Exodus 32.31: 31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

Exodus 32.32: 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

Exodus 32.33: 33 Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.

Exodus 32.34: 34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

Exodus 32.35: 35 Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.

Exodus 33.1: 33Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’

Exodus 33.2: 2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 33.3: 3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

Exodus 33.4: 4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.

Exodus 33.5: 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”

Exodus 33.6: 6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

Exodus 33.7: 7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

Exodus 33.8: 8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.

Exodus 33.9: 9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.

Exodus 33.10: 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.

Exodus 33.11: 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

Exodus 33.12: 12 Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

Exodus 33.13: 13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

Exodus 33.14: 14 He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33.15: 15 Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.

Exodus 33.16: 16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”

Exodus 33.17: 17 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Exodus 33.19: 19 He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

Exodus 33.20: 20 He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

Exodus 33.21: 21 Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

Exodus 33.22: 22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

Exodus 33.23: 23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

Exodus 34.1: 34Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34.2: 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

Exodus 34.3: 3 No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”

Exodus 34.4: 4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

Exodus 34.5: 5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.

Exodus 34.6: 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Exodus 34.7: 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34.8: 8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

Exodus 34.9: 9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Exodus 34.10: 10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

Exodus 34.11: 11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 34.12: 12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

Exodus 34.13: 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

Exodus 34.14: 14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Exodus 34.15: 15 “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

Exodus 34.16: 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

Exodus 34.18: 18 “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

Exodus 34.19: 19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

Exodus 34.20: 20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.

Exodus 34.21: 21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Exodus 34.22: 22 “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.

Exodus 34.23: 23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Exodus 34.24: 24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

Exodus 34.25: 25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.

Exodus 34.26: 26 “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God.

Exodus 34.27: 27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Exodus 34.28: 28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Exodus 34.29: 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

Exodus 34.30: 30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

Exodus 34.31: 31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.

Exodus 34.32: 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

Exodus 34.33: 33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

Exodus 34.34: 34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

Exodus 34.35: 35 The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Exodus 35.1: 35Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.

Exodus 35.2: 2 ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

Exodus 35.3: 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”

Exodus 35.4: 4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,

Exodus 35.5: 5 ‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,

Exodus 35.8: 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

Exodus 35.9: 9 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

Exodus 35.10: 10 “‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:

Exodus 35.11: 11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

Exodus 35.12: 12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;

Exodus 35.13: 13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread;

Exodus 35.14: 14 the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;

Exodus 35.15: 15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

Exodus 35.16: 16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;

Exodus 35.17: 17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

Exodus 35.18: 18 the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords;

Exodus 35.19: 19 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons—to minister in the priest’s office.’”

Exodus 35.20: 20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

Exodus 35.21: 21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.

Exodus 35.22: 22 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.

Exodus 35.23: 23 Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.

Exodus 35.24: 24 Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Yahweh’s offering; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.

Exodus 35.25: 25 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

Exodus 35.26: 26 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

Exodus 35.27: 27 The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate;

Exodus 35.28: 28 with the spice and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

Exodus 35.29: 29 The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

Exodus 35.30: 30 Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Exodus 35.31: 31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;

Exodus 35.32: 32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,

Exodus 35.33: 33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.

Exodus 35.34: 34 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

Exodus 35.35: 35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

Exodus 36.1: 36“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”

Exodus 36.2: 2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.

Exodus 36.3: 3 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.

Exodus 36.4: 4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.

Exodus 36.5: 5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”

Exodus 36.6: 6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.

Exodus 36.7: 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.

Exodus 36.8: 8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

Exodus 36.9: 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,1 and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.

Exodus 36.10: 10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

Exodus 36.11: 11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.

Exodus 36.12: 12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.

Exodus 36.13: 13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.

Exodus 36.14: 14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.

Exodus 36.15: 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.

Exodus 36.16: 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Exodus 36.17: 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.

Exodus 36.18: 18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.

Exodus 36.19: 19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

Exodus 36.20: 20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

Exodus 36.21: 21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

Exodus 36.22: 22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.

Exodus 36.23: 23 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.

Exodus 36.24: 24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

Exodus 36.25: 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards

Exodus 36.26: 26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Exodus 36.27: 27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

Exodus 36.28: 28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.

Exodus 36.29: 29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.

Exodus 36.30: 30 There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.

Exodus 36.31: 31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 36.32: 32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.

Exodus 36.33: 33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.

Exodus 36.34: 34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Exodus 36.35: 35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.

Exodus 36.36: 36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.

Exodus 36.37: 37 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;

Exodus 36.38: 38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.

Exodus 37.1: 37Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits,1 and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

Exodus 37.2: 2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.

Exodus 37.3: 3 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet—two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.

Exodus 37.5: 5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

Exodus 37.6: 6 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.

Exodus 37.7: 7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat:

Exodus 37.8: 8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

Exodus 37.9: 9 The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 37.10: 10 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.

Exodus 37.11: 11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.

Exodus 37.12: 12 He made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.

Exodus 37.13: 13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.

Exodus 37.14: 14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 37.15: 15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

Exodus 37.16: 16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.

Exodus 37.17: 17 He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.

Exodus 37.18: 18 There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side:

Exodus 37.19: 19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower; so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.

Exodus 37.20: 20 In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

Exodus 37.21: 21 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.

Exodus 37.22: 22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.

Exodus 37.23: 23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.

Exodus 37.25: 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.

Exodus 37.26: 26 He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.

Exodus 37.27: 27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.

Exodus 37.29: 29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

Exodus 38.1: 38He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits,1 its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.

Exodus 38.2: 2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

Exodus 38.3: 3 He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.

Exodus 38.4: 4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.

Exodus 38.5: 5 He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles.

Exodus 38.7: 7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

Exodus 38.8: 8 He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 38.9: 9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;

Exodus 38.10: 10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Exodus 38.11: 11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Exodus 38.12: 12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Exodus 38.14: 14 the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;

Exodus 38.15: 15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 38.17: 17 The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands.

Exodus 38.18: 18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.

Exodus 38.19: 19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

Exodus 38.20: 20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.

Exodus 38.21: 21 These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

Exodus 38.22: 22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 38.23: 23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

Exodus 38.24: 24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents2 and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel3 of the sanctuary.

Exodus 38.25: 25 The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents4 and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,5 according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

Exodus 38.26: 26 a beka6 a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel7 of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

Exodus 38.27: 27 The one hundred talents8 of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.

Exodus 38.28: 28 From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels9 he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

Exodus 38.29: 29 The bronze of the offering was seventy talents10 and two thousand four hundred shekels.11

Exodus 38.30: 30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,

Exodus 38.31: 31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.

Exodus 39.1: 39Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.2: 2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 39.3: 3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.

Exodus 39.4: 4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.

Exodus 39.5: 5 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.6: 6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.

Exodus 39.7: 7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.8: 8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 39.9: 9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span,1 and its width a span, being double.

Exodus 39.10: 10 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;

Exodus 39.13: 13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.

Exodus 39.14: 14 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.

Exodus 39.15: 15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

Exodus 39.16: 16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 39.17: 17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 39.18: 18 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.

Exodus 39.19: 19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.

Exodus 39.20: 20 They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

Exodus 39.21: 21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.23: 23 The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.

Exodus 39.24: 24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.

Exodus 39.25: 25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;

Exodus 39.26: 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.27: 27 They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,

Exodus 39.28: 28 the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,

Exodus 39.29: 29 the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.30: 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.

Exodus 39.31: 31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 39.32: 32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.

Exodus 39.33: 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

Exodus 39.34: 34 the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,

Exodus 39.37: 37 the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,

Exodus 39.38: 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,

Exodus 39.39: 39 the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,

Exodus 39.40: 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,

Exodus 39.41: 41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

Exodus 39.42: 42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

Exodus 39.43: 43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

Exodus 40.2: 2 “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 40.3: 3 You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

Exodus 40.4: 4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.

Exodus 40.5: 5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

Exodus 40.6: 6 “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 40.7: 7 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.

Exodus 40.8: 8 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

Exodus 40.9: 9 “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy.

Exodus 40.10: 10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.

Exodus 40.12: 12 “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

Exodus 40.13: 13 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 40.15: 15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

Exodus 40.16: 16 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

Exodus 40.17: 17 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.

Exodus 40.18: 18 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

Exodus 40.19: 19 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 40.20: 20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

Exodus 40.21: 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 40.22: 22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil.

Exodus 40.23: 23 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 40.24: 24 He put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

Exodus 40.26: 26 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

Exodus 40.27: 27 and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 40.29: 29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 40.30: 30 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.

Exodus 40.31: 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.

Exodus 40.32: 32 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exodus 40.33: 33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

Exodus 40.34: 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40.35: 35 Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40.36: 36 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;

Exodus 40.37: 37 but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up.

Exodus 40.38: 38 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

Leviticus 1.1: 1Yahweh1 called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Leviticus 1.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.

Leviticus 1.3: 3 “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

Leviticus 1.4: 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Leviticus 1.5: 5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 1.7: 7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;

Leviticus 1.8: 8 and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;

Leviticus 1.9: 9 but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 1.10: 10 “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.

Leviticus 1.11: 11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 1.12: 12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,

Leviticus 1.13: 13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 1.14: 14 “‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.

Leviticus 1.15: 15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;

Leviticus 1.16: 16 and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

Leviticus 1.17: 17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.1: 2“‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.

Leviticus 2.2: 2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.3: 3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

Leviticus 2.4: 4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Leviticus 2.5: 5 If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.

Leviticus 2.6: 6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.

Leviticus 2.7: 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

Leviticus 2.8: 8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.

Leviticus 2.9: 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.10: 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

Leviticus 2.11: 11 “‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.12: 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.

Leviticus 2.13: 13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God1 to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Leviticus 2.14: 14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.

Leviticus 2.15: 15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.

Leviticus 2.16: 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 3.1: 3“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.

Leviticus 3.2: 2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 3.3: 3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

Leviticus 3.4: 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.

Leviticus 3.5: 5 Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 3.6: 6 “‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect.

Leviticus 3.7: 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh;

Leviticus 3.8: 8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 3.9: 9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,

Leviticus 3.10: 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.

Leviticus 3.11: 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 3.12: 12 “‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh.

Leviticus 3.13: 13 He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 3.14: 14 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

Leviticus 3.15: 15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.

Leviticus 3.16: 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh’s.

Leviticus 3.17: 17 “‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”

Leviticus 4.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

Leviticus 4.3: 3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.

Leviticus 4.4: 4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.

Leviticus 4.5: 5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.6: 6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4.7: 7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.8: 8 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

Leviticus 4.9: 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove,

Leviticus 4.10: 10 as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.11: 11 He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung

Leviticus 4.12: 12 —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.

Leviticus 4.13: 13 “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

Leviticus 4.14: 14 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.15: 15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.

Leviticus 4.16: 16 The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.17: 17 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.

Leviticus 4.18: 18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.20: 20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4.21: 21 He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

Leviticus 4.22: 22 “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

Leviticus 4.23: 23 if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.

Leviticus 4.24: 24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4.25: 25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.26: 26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4.27: 27 “‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

Leviticus 4.28: 28 if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.

Leviticus 4.29: 29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.30: 30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 4.31: 31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4.32: 32 “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

Leviticus 4.33: 33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.34: 34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 4.35: 35 He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.1: 5“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5.2: 2 “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

Leviticus 5.3: 3 “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

Leviticus 5.4: 4 “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

Leviticus 5.5: 5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;

Leviticus 5.6: 6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

Leviticus 5.7: 7 “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 5.8: 8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.

Leviticus 5.9: 9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5.10: 10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.11: 11 “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah1 of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5.12: 12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5.13: 13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”

Leviticus 5.15: 15 “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel2 of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

Leviticus 5.16: 16 He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.17: 17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5.18: 18 He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.19: 19 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”

Leviticus 6.2: 2 “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

Leviticus 6.3: 3 or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions—

Leviticus 6.4: 4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

Leviticus 6.5: 5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.

Leviticus 6.6: 6 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.

Leviticus 6.7: 7 The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

Leviticus 6.9: 9 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

Leviticus 6.10: 10 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

Leviticus 6.11: 11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

Leviticus 6.12: 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.

Leviticus 6.13: 13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

Leviticus 6.14: 14 “‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.

Leviticus 6.15: 15 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to Yahweh.

Leviticus 6.16: 16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 6.17: 17 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.

Leviticus 6.18: 18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’”

Leviticus 6.20: 20 “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah1 of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.

Leviticus 6.21: 21 It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 6.22: 22 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh.

Leviticus 6.23: 23 Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”

Leviticus 6.25: 25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.

Leviticus 6.26: 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 6.27: 27 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

Leviticus 6.28: 28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.

Leviticus 6.29: 29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy.

Leviticus 6.30: 30 No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.

Leviticus 7.1: 7“‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy.

Leviticus 7.2: 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.

Leviticus 7.3: 3 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,

Leviticus 7.4: 4 and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys;

Leviticus 7.5: 5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering.

Leviticus 7.6: 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

Leviticus 7.7: 7 “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.

Leviticus 7.8: 8 The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.

Leviticus 7.9: 9 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.

Leviticus 7.10: 10 Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.

Leviticus 7.11: 11 “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh:

Leviticus 7.12: 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.

Leviticus 7.13: 13 He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread.

Leviticus 7.14: 14 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

Leviticus 7.15: 15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.

Leviticus 7.16: 16 “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten,

Leviticus 7.17: 17 but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.

Leviticus 7.18: 18 If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 7.19: 19 “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;

Leviticus 7.20: 20 but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7.21: 21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”

Leviticus 7.23: 23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.

Leviticus 7.24: 24 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

Leviticus 7.25: 25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7.26: 26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 7.27: 27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”

Leviticus 7.29: 29 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

Leviticus 7.30: 30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Leviticus 7.31: 31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

Leviticus 7.32: 32 The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Leviticus 7.33: 33 He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.

Leviticus 7.34: 34 For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’”

Leviticus 7.35: 35 This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest’s office;

Leviticus 7.36: 36 which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.

Leviticus 7.37: 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings

Leviticus 7.38: 38 which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus 8.2: 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

Leviticus 8.3: 3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”

Leviticus 8.4: 4 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 8.5: 5 Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done.”

Leviticus 8.7: 7 He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.

Leviticus 8.8: 8 He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.

Leviticus 8.9: 9 He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.10: 10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

Leviticus 8.11: 11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

Leviticus 8.12: 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

Leviticus 8.13: 13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.14: 14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

Leviticus 8.15: 15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

Leviticus 8.16: 16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.

Leviticus 8.17: 17 But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.18: 18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8.19: 19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 8.20: 20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Leviticus 8.21: 21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.22: 22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8.23: 23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 8.24: 24 He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 8.25: 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;

Leviticus 8.26: 26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.

Leviticus 8.27: 27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Leviticus 8.28: 28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 8.29: 29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.30: 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Leviticus 8.31: 31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

Leviticus 8.32: 32 What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.

Leviticus 8.33: 33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

Leviticus 8.34: 34 What has been done today, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.

Leviticus 8.35: 35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

Leviticus 8.36: 36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.

Leviticus 9.1: 9On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

Leviticus 9.2: 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before Yahweh.

Leviticus 9.3: 3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;

Leviticus 9.4: 4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.’”

Leviticus 9.5: 5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before Yahweh.

Leviticus 9.6: 6 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do; and Yahweh’s glory shall appear to you.”

Leviticus 9.7: 7 Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded.”

Leviticus 9.8: 8 So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

Leviticus 9.9: 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;

Leviticus 9.10: 10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 9.12: 12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

Leviticus 9.13: 13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar.

Leviticus 9.14: 14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.

Leviticus 9.15: 15 He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.

Leviticus 9.16: 16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

Leviticus 9.17: 17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.

Leviticus 9.18: 18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar;

Leviticus 9.19: 19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver;

Leviticus 9.20: 20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.

Leviticus 9.21: 21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.

Leviticus 9.22: 22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

Leviticus 9.23: 23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the people.

Leviticus 9.24: 24 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Leviticus 10.1: 10Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.

Leviticus 10.2: 2 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

Leviticus 10.3: 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying,

Leviticus 10.4: 4 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”

Leviticus 10.5: 5 So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.

Leviticus 10.6: 6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

Leviticus 10.7: 7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses.

Leviticus 10.9: 9 “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Leviticus 10.10: 10 You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

Leviticus 10.11: 11 You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

Leviticus 10.12: 12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;

Leviticus 10.13: 13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for so I am commanded.

Leviticus 10.14: 14 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Leviticus 10.15: 15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”

Leviticus 10.16: 16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold,1 it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,

Leviticus 10.17: 17 “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?

Leviticus 10.18: 18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”

Leviticus 10.19: 19 Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?”

Leviticus 11.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

Leviticus 11.3: 3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

Leviticus 11.4: 4 “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.5: 5 The hyrax,1 because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.6: 6 The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.7: 7 The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.8: 8 You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.9: 9 “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

Leviticus 11.10: 10 All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

Leviticus 11.11: 11 and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.

Leviticus 11.12: 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you.

Leviticus 11.13: 13 “‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Leviticus 11.16: 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Leviticus 11.20: 20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

Leviticus 11.21: 21 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.

Leviticus 11.22: 22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

Leviticus 11.23: 23 But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.

Leviticus 11.24: 24 “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11.25: 25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11.26: 26 “‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

Leviticus 11.27: 27 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11.28: 28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.29: 29 “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

Leviticus 11.30: 30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

Leviticus 11.31: 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11.32: 32 Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.

Leviticus 11.33: 33 Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.

Leviticus 11.34: 34 All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

Leviticus 11.35: 35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.36: 36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

Leviticus 11.37: 37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

Leviticus 11.38: 38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11.39: 39 “‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11.40: 40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11.41: 41 “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

Leviticus 11.42: 42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Leviticus 11.43: 43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.

Leviticus 11.44: 44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 11.45: 45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 11.46: 46 “‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,

Leviticus 11.47: 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”

Leviticus 12.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

Leviticus 12.3: 3 In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Leviticus 12.4: 4 She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.

Leviticus 12.5: 5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

Leviticus 12.6: 6 “‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.

Leviticus 12.7: 7 He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.

Leviticus 12.8: 8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”

Leviticus 13.2: 2 “When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.

Leviticus 13.3: 3 The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.

Leviticus 13.4: 4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

Leviticus 13.5: 5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.

Leviticus 13.6: 6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

Leviticus 13.7: 7 But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

Leviticus 13.8: 8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.

Leviticus 13.9: 9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

Leviticus 13.10: 10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Leviticus 13.11: 11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean.

Leviticus 13.12: 12 “If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,

Leviticus 13.13: 13 then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.

Leviticus 13.15: 15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.

Leviticus 13.16: 16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.

Leviticus 13.17: 17 The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.

Leviticus 13.19: 19 and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.

Leviticus 13.20: 20 The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.

Leviticus 13.21: 21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

Leviticus 13.22: 22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.

Leviticus 13.23: 23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13.24: 24 “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,

Leviticus 13.25: 25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

Leviticus 13.26: 26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

Leviticus 13.27: 27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

Leviticus 13.28: 28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.

Leviticus 13.29: 29 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

Leviticus 13.30: 30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

Leviticus 13.31: 31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.

Leviticus 13.32: 32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,

Leviticus 13.33: 33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days.

Leviticus 13.34: 34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.

Leviticus 13.36: 36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

Leviticus 13.37: 37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13.38: 38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots,

Leviticus 13.39: 39 then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.

Leviticus 13.40: 40 “If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

Leviticus 13.41: 41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

Leviticus 13.42: 42 But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead.

Leviticus 13.43: 43 Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

Leviticus 13.44: 44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

Leviticus 13.45: 45 “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

Leviticus 13.46: 46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.

Leviticus 13.47: 47 “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

Leviticus 13.48: 48 whether it is in warp or woof;1 of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather;

Leviticus 13.49: 49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.

Leviticus 13.50: 50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.

Leviticus 13.51: 51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.

Leviticus 13.52: 52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.

Leviticus 13.53: 53 “If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;

Leviticus 13.54: 54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days.

Leviticus 13.55: 55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.

Leviticus 13.56: 56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof;

Leviticus 13.57: 57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.

Leviticus 13.58: 58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”

Leviticus 13.59: 59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

Leviticus 14.2: 2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,

Leviticus 14.3: 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

Leviticus 14.4: 4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.

Leviticus 14.5: 5 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

Leviticus 14.6: 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.

Leviticus 14.7: 7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

Leviticus 14.8: 8 “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

Leviticus 14.9: 9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.

Leviticus 14.10: 10 “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah1 of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log2 of oil.

Leviticus 14.11: 11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 14.12: 12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.13: 13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.

Leviticus 14.14: 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 14.15: 15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.

Leviticus 14.16: 16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.17: 17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.

Leviticus 14.18: 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.19: 19 “The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;

Leviticus 14.20: 20 then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

Leviticus 14.21: 21 “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah3 of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log4 of oil;

Leviticus 14.22: 22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

Leviticus 14.23: 23 “On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.24: 24 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.25: 25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 14.26: 26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;

Leviticus 14.27: 27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.28: 28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.

Leviticus 14.29: 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.

Leviticus 14.30: 30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford,

Leviticus 14.31: 31 of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.”

Leviticus 14.32: 32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.

Leviticus 14.34: 34 “When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,

Leviticus 14.35: 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’

Leviticus 14.36: 36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.

Leviticus 14.37: 37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall,

Leviticus 14.38: 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Leviticus 14.39: 39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,

Leviticus 14.40: 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.

Leviticus 14.41: 41 He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.

Leviticus 14.42: 42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

Leviticus 14.43: 43 “If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered,

Leviticus 14.44: 44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.

Leviticus 14.45: 45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

Leviticus 14.46: 46 “Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 14.47: 47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

Leviticus 14.48: 48 “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

Leviticus 14.49: 49 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.

Leviticus 14.50: 50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

Leviticus 14.51: 51 He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

Leviticus 14.52: 52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;

Leviticus 14.53: 53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”

Leviticus 14.55: 55 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,

Leviticus 15.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

Leviticus 15.3: 3 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Leviticus 15.4: 4 “‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15.5: 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.6: 6 He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.7: 7 “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.8: 8 “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.9: 9 “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15.10: 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.11: 11 “‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.12: 12 “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

Leviticus 15.13: 13 “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

Leviticus 15.14: 14 “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.

Leviticus 15.15: 15 The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.

Leviticus 15.16: 16 “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.17: 17 Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.18: 18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.19: 19 “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.20: 20 “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15.21: 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.22: 22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.23: 23 If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.24: 24 “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15.25: 25 “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.

Leviticus 15.26: 26 Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.

Leviticus 15.27: 27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15.28: 28 “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

Leviticus 15.29: 29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 15.30: 30 The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.

Leviticus 15.31: 31 “‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”

Leviticus 15.32: 32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;

Leviticus 15.33: 33 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.

Leviticus 16.1: 16Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died;

Leviticus 16.2: 2 and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

Leviticus 16.3: 3 “Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 16.4: 4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic. He shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

Leviticus 16.5: 5 He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 16.6: 6 “Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.

Leviticus 16.7: 7 He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 16.8: 8 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

Leviticus 16.9: 9 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.

Leviticus 16.10: 10 But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

Leviticus 16.11: 11 “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.

Leviticus 16.12: 12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.

Leviticus 16.13: 13 He shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die.

Leviticus 16.14: 14 He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

Leviticus 16.15: 15 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

Leviticus 16.16: 16 He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.

Leviticus 16.17: 17 No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

Leviticus 16.18: 18 “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.

Leviticus 16.19: 19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

Leviticus 16.20: 20 “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

Leviticus 16.21: 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready.

Leviticus 16.22: 22 The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

Leviticus 16.23: 23 “Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.

Leviticus 16.24: 24 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

Leviticus 16.26: 26 “He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

Leviticus 16.27: 27 The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.

Leviticus 16.28: 28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

Leviticus 16.29: 29 “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

Leviticus 16.30: 30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.

Leviticus 16.31: 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

Leviticus 16.32: 32 The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.

Leviticus 16.33: 33 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

Leviticus 16.34: 34 “This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.”

Leviticus 17.2: 2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded:

Leviticus 17.3: 3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

Leviticus 17.4: 4 and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 17.5: 5 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

Leviticus 17.6: 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 17.7: 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

Leviticus 17.8: 8 “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

Leviticus 17.9: 9 and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that man shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 17.10: 10 “‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17.11: 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

Leviticus 17.12: 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”

Leviticus 17.13: 13 “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

Leviticus 17.14: 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

Leviticus 17.15: 15 “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.

Leviticus 17.16: 16 But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

Leviticus 18.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 18.3: 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.

Leviticus 18.4: 4 You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 18.5: 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 18.6: 6 “‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 18.7: 7 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

Leviticus 18.8: 8 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

Leviticus 18.9: 9 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

Leviticus 18.10: 10 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness.

Leviticus 18.11: 11 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.

Leviticus 18.12: 12 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.

Leviticus 18.13: 13 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.

Leviticus 18.14: 14 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.

Leviticus 18.15: 15 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

Leviticus 18.16: 16 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.

Leviticus 18.17: 17 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness.

Leviticus 18.18: 18 “‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

Leviticus 18.19: 19 “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Leviticus 18.20: 20 “‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.

Leviticus 18.21: 21 “‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 18.22: 22 “‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

Leviticus 18.23: 23 “‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

Leviticus 18.24: 24 “‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

Leviticus 18.25: 25 The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

Leviticus 18.26: 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you

Leviticus 18.27: 27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),

Leviticus 18.28: 28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Leviticus 18.29: 29 “‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 18.30: 30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”

Leviticus 19.2: 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Leviticus 19.3: 3 “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19.4: 4 “‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19.5: 5 “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

Leviticus 19.6: 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.

Leviticus 19.7: 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;

Leviticus 19.8: 8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 19.9: 9 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Leviticus 19.10: 10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19.12: 12 “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

“‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19.14: 14 “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 19.15: 15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Leviticus 19.16: 16 “‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people.

Leviticus 19.17: 17 “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Leviticus 19.18: 18 “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 19.20: 20 “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

Leviticus 19.21: 21 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.

Leviticus 19.22: 22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 19.23: 23 “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.2 For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.

Leviticus 19.24: 24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.

Leviticus 19.25: 25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19.26: 26 “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Leviticus 19.27: 27 “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.

Leviticus 19.28: 28 “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 19.29: 29 “‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

Leviticus 19.30: 30 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 19.31: 31 “‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19.32: 32 “‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 19.33: 33 “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Leviticus 19.34: 34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 19.35: 35 “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

Leviticus 19.36: 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah,3 and a just hin.4 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19.37: 37 “‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”

Leviticus 20.2: 2 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring1 to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.

Leviticus 20.3: 3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

Leviticus 20.4: 4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,

Leviticus 20.5: 5 then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

Leviticus 20.6: 6 “‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 20.7: 7 “‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 20.8: 8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 20.9: 9 “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

Leviticus 20.10: 10 “‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20.11: 11 “‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.

Leviticus 20.12: 12 “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves.

Leviticus 20.13: 13 “‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.

Leviticus 20.14: 14 “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.

Leviticus 20.15: 15 “‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

Leviticus 20.16: 16 “‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20.17: 17 “‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 20.18: 18 “‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 20.19: 19 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20.20: 20 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.

Leviticus 20.21: 21 “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.

Leviticus 20.22: 22 “‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.

Leviticus 20.23: 23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 20.24: 24 But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Leviticus 20.25: 25 “‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

Leviticus 20.26: 26 You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Leviticus 20.27: 27 “‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’”

Leviticus 21.1: 21Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people,

Leviticus 21.2: 2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

Leviticus 21.3: 3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

Leviticus 21.4: 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Leviticus 21.5: 5 “‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

Leviticus 21.6: 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.

Leviticus 21.7: 7 “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

Leviticus 21.8: 8 Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

Leviticus 21.9: 9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

Leviticus 21.10: 10 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.

Leviticus 21.11: 11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.

Leviticus 21.12: 12 He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 21.14: 14 He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

Leviticus 21.15: 15 He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”

Leviticus 21.17: 17 “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21.18: 18 For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

Leviticus 21.20: 20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

Leviticus 21.21: 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21.22: 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Leviticus 21.23: 23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 21.24: 24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

Leviticus 22.2: 2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.3: 3 “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.4: 4 “‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,

Leviticus 22.5: 5 or whoever touches any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has—

Leviticus 22.6: 6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

Leviticus 22.7: 7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

Leviticus 22.8: 8 He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.9: 9 “‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Leviticus 22.10: 10 “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Leviticus 22.11: 11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.

Leviticus 22.12: 12 If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

Leviticus 22.13: 13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.

Leviticus 22.14: 14 “‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.

Leviticus 22.15: 15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,

Leviticus 22.16: 16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 22.18: 18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering:

Leviticus 22.19: 19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Leviticus 22.20: 20 But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Leviticus 22.21: 21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.

Leviticus 22.22: 22 You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.23: 23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Leviticus 22.24: 24 You must not offer to Yahweh that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.

Leviticus 22.25: 25 You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

Leviticus 22.27: 27 “When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.28: 28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

Leviticus 22.29: 29 “When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

Leviticus 22.30: 30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.31: 31 “Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 22.32: 32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

Leviticus 22.33: 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”

Leviticus 23.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

Leviticus 23.3: 3 “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23.4: 4 “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.

Leviticus 23.5: 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.

Leviticus 23.6: 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

Leviticus 23.7: 7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

Leviticus 23.8: 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’”

Leviticus 23.10: 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.

Leviticus 23.11: 11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Leviticus 23.12: 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.13: 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah1 of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.2

Leviticus 23.14: 14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23.15: 15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.

Leviticus 23.16: 16 The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.17: 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah3 of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.18: 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.19: 19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

Leviticus 23.20: 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

Leviticus 23.21: 21 You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Leviticus 23.22: 22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

Leviticus 23.24: 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Leviticus 23.25: 25 You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”

Leviticus 23.27: 27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.28: 28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 23.29: 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 23.30: 30 Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.

Leviticus 23.31: 31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23.32: 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 23.34: 34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths4 for seven days to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.35: 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

Leviticus 23.36: 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

Leviticus 23.37: 37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—

Leviticus 23.38: 38 in addition to the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.39: 39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

Leviticus 23.40: 40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

Leviticus 23.41: 41 You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 23.42: 42 You shall dwell in temporary shelters5 for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,6

Leviticus 23.43: 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters7 when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”

Leviticus 23.44: 44 So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.

Leviticus 24.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

Leviticus 24.3: 3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Leviticus 24.4: 4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.

Leviticus 24.5: 5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah1 shall be in one cake.

Leviticus 24.6: 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.

Leviticus 24.7: 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 24.8: 8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Leviticus 24.9: 9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

Leviticus 24.10: 10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

Leviticus 24.11: 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

Leviticus 24.12: 12 They put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.

Leviticus 24.14: 14 “Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

Leviticus 24.15: 15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Leviticus 24.16: 16 He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

Leviticus 24.17: 17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24.18: 18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

Leviticus 24.19: 19 If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:

Leviticus 24.20: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.

Leviticus 24.21: 21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24.22: 22 You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

Leviticus 24.23: 23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 25.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

Leviticus 25.3: 3 You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;

Leviticus 25.4: 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

Leviticus 25.5: 5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

Leviticus 25.6: 6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

Leviticus 25.7: 7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

Leviticus 25.8: 8 “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

Leviticus 25.9: 9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

Leviticus 25.10: 10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

Leviticus 25.11: 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

Leviticus 25.12: 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

Leviticus 25.13: 13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

Leviticus 25.14: 14 “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

Leviticus 25.15: 15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

Leviticus 25.16: 16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

Leviticus 25.17: 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 25.18: 18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

Leviticus 25.19: 19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

Leviticus 25.20: 20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”

Leviticus 25.21: 21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

Leviticus 25.22: 22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

Leviticus 25.23: 23 “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

Leviticus 25.24: 24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

Leviticus 25.25: 25 “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

Leviticus 25.26: 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

Leviticus 25.27: 27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

Leviticus 25.28: 28 But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

Leviticus 25.29: 29 “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

Leviticus 25.30: 30 If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25.31: 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25.32: 32 “‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.

Leviticus 25.33: 33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

Leviticus 25.34: 34 But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

Leviticus 25.35: 35 “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

Leviticus 25.36: 36 Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Leviticus 25.37: 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Leviticus 25.38: 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

Leviticus 25.39: 39 “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

Leviticus 25.40: 40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25.41: 41 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

Leviticus 25.42: 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25.43: 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Leviticus 25.44: 44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

Leviticus 25.45: 45 Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

Leviticus 25.46: 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

Leviticus 25.47: 47 “‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,

Leviticus 25.48: 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

Leviticus 25.49: 49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25.50: 50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

Leviticus 25.51: 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Leviticus 25.52: 52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

Leviticus 25.53: 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

Leviticus 25.54: 54 If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.

Leviticus 25.55: 55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 26.1: 26“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 26.2: 2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 26.3: 3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,

Leviticus 26.4: 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26.5: 5 Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Leviticus 26.6: 6 “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

Leviticus 26.7: 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

Leviticus 26.8: 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Leviticus 26.9: 9 “‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Leviticus 26.10: 10 You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

Leviticus 26.11: 11 I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

Leviticus 26.12: 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

Leviticus 26.13: 13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

Leviticus 26.14: 14 “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,

Leviticus 26.15: 15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

Leviticus 26.16: 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26.17: 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

Leviticus 26.18: 18 “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26.19: 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.

Leviticus 26.20: 20 Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26.21: 21 “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

Leviticus 26.22: 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

Leviticus 26.23: 23 “‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,

Leviticus 26.24: 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26.25: 25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26.26: 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26.27: 27 “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

Leviticus 26.28: 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26.29: 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Leviticus 26.30: 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

Leviticus 26.31: 31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

Leviticus 26.32: 32 I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.

Leviticus 26.33: 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Leviticus 26.34: 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Leviticus 26.35: 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

Leviticus 26.36: 36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

Leviticus 26.37: 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

Leviticus 26.38: 38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

Leviticus 26.39: 39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

Leviticus 26.40: 40 “‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

Leviticus 26.41: 41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

Leviticus 26.42: 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26.43: 43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Leviticus 26.44: 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

Leviticus 26.45: 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

Leviticus 26.46: 46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

Leviticus 27.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,

Leviticus 27.3: 3 your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel1 of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 27.4: 4 If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

Leviticus 27.5: 5 If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

Leviticus 27.6: 6 If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

Leviticus 27.7: 7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

Leviticus 27.8: 8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.

Leviticus 27.9: 9 “‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.

Leviticus 27.10: 10 He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.

Leviticus 27.11: 11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest;

Leviticus 27.12: 12 and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be.

Leviticus 27.13: 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.

Leviticus 27.14: 14 “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand.

Leviticus 27.15: 15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

Leviticus 27.16: 16 “‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer 2 of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels3 of silver.

Leviticus 27.17: 17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

Leviticus 27.18: 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.

Leviticus 27.19: 19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.

Leviticus 27.20: 20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;

Leviticus 27.21: 21 but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.

Leviticus 27.22: 22 “‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

Leviticus 27.23: 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.

Leviticus 27.24: 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

Leviticus 27.25: 25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs4 to the shekel.5

Leviticus 27.26: 26 “‘However the firstborn among animals, which belongs to Yahweh as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is Yahweh’s.

Leviticus 27.27: 27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Leviticus 27.28: 28 “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to Yahweh.

Leviticus 27.29: 29 “‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 27.30: 30 “‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

Leviticus 27.31: 31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.

Leviticus 27.32: 32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.

Leviticus 27.33: 33 He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

Leviticus 27.34: 34 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.

Numbers 1.1: 1Yahweh1 spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 1.2: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

Numbers 1.3: 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

Numbers 1.4: 4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.10: 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 1.16: 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes2 of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Numbers 1.18: 18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

Numbers 1.19: 19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 1.20: 20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.21: 21 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.22: 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.23: 23 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Numbers 1.24: 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.25: 25 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.26: 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.27: 27 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 1.28: 28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.29: 29 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.30: 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.31: 31 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.32: 32 Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.33: 33 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.34: 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.35: 35 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 1.36: 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.37: 37 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.38: 38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.39: 39 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Numbers 1.40: 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.41: 41 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.42: 42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.43: 43 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.44: 44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.45: 45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—

Numbers 1.46: 46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.47: 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

Numbers 1.49: 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

Numbers 1.50: 50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

Numbers 1.51: 51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 1.52: 52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

Numbers 1.53: 53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

Numbers 1.54: 54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

Numbers 2.2: 2 “The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.”

Numbers 2.3: 3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Numbers 2.4: 4 His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 2.5: 5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. The prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.

Numbers 2.6: 6 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.7: 7 The tribe of Zebulun: the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.

Numbers 2.8: 8 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.9: 9 All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

Numbers 2.10: 10 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Numbers 2.11: 11 His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 2.12: 12 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Numbers 2.13: 13 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Numbers 2.14: 14 “The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

Numbers 2.15: 15 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Numbers 2.16: 16 “All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.

Numbers 2.17: 17 “Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

Numbers 2.18: 18 “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 2.19: 19 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

Numbers 2.20: 20 “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 2.21: 21 His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 2.22: 22 “The tribe of Benjamin: the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Numbers 2.23: 23 His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.24: 24 “All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.

Numbers 2.25: 25 “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Numbers 2.26: 26 His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Numbers 2.27: 27 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Numbers 2.28: 28 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 2.29: 29 “The tribe of Naphtali: the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

Numbers 2.30: 30 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.31: 31 “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”

Numbers 2.32: 32 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Numbers 2.33: 33 But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 2.34: 34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

Numbers 3.1: 3Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

Numbers 3.2: 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Numbers 3.3: 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

Numbers 3.4: 4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.

Numbers 3.6: 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

Numbers 3.7: 7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.8: 8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.9: 9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Numbers 3.10: 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3.12: 12 “Behold,1 I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,

Numbers 3.13: 13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”

Numbers 3.15: 15 “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”

Numbers 3.16: 16 Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as he was commanded.

Numbers 3.17: 17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Numbers 3.18: 18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

Numbers 3.19: 19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Numbers 3.21: 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.

Numbers 3.22: 22 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.

Numbers 3.23: 23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

Numbers 3.24: 24 Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.

Numbers 3.25: 25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 3.26: 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

Numbers 3.27: 27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.

Numbers 3.28: 28 According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

Numbers 3.29: 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.30: 30 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

Numbers 3.31: 31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.

Numbers 3.32: 32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

Numbers 3.33: 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

Numbers 3.34: 34 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.2

Numbers 3.35: 35 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.36: 36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,

Numbers 3.37: 37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

Numbers 3.38: 38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 3.39: 39 All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

Numbers 3.40: 40 Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

Numbers 3.41: 41 You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”

Numbers 3.42: 42 Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

Numbers 3.43: 43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

Numbers 3.45: 45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

Numbers 3.46: 46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,

Numbers 3.47: 47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel3 of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs4);

Numbers 3.48: 48 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

Numbers 3.49: 49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

Numbers 3.50: 50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels,5 according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

Numbers 3.51: 51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 4.2: 2 “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

Numbers 4.3: 3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4.4: 4 “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things.

Numbers 4.5: 5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

Numbers 4.6: 6 put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.

Numbers 4.7: 7 “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.

Numbers 4.8: 8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Numbers 4.9: 9 “They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.

Numbers 4.10: 10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

Numbers 4.11: 11 “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Numbers 4.12: 12 “They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

Numbers 4.13: 13 “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.

Numbers 4.14: 14 They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

Numbers 4.15: 15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4.16: 16 “The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”

Numbers 4.18: 18 “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

Numbers 4.19: 19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;

Numbers 4.20: 20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”

Numbers 4.22: 22 “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;

Numbers 4.23: 23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4.24: 24 “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Numbers 4.25: 25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, the covering of sealskin that is on it, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 4.26: 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.

Numbers 4.27: 27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.

Numbers 4.28: 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting. Their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 4.29: 29 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;

Numbers 4.30: 30 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4.31: 31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

Numbers 4.32: 32 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.

Numbers 4.33: 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”

Numbers 4.34: 34 Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

Numbers 4.35: 35 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4.36: 36 Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.

Numbers 4.37: 37 These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

Numbers 4.38: 38 Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

Numbers 4.39: 39 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 4.40: 40 even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.

Numbers 4.41: 41 These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh.

Numbers 4.42: 42 Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

Numbers 4.43: 43 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 4.44: 44 even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.

Numbers 4.45: 45 These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

Numbers 4.46: 46 All those who were counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,

Numbers 4.47: 47 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 4.48: 48 even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.

Numbers 4.49: 49 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 5.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.

Numbers 5.3: 3 You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

Numbers 5.4: 4 The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Numbers 5.6: 6 “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty,

Numbers 5.7: 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

Numbers 5.8: 8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.

Numbers 5.9: 9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.

Numbers 5.10: 10 Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”

Numbers 5.12: 12 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

Numbers 5.13: 13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;

Numbers 5.14: 14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;

Numbers 5.15: 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah1 of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

Numbers 5.17: 17 The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Numbers 5.18: 18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

Numbers 5.19: 19 The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

Numbers 5.20: 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”

Numbers 5.21: 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

Numbers 5.22: 22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

Numbers 5.23: 23 “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.

Numbers 5.24: 24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

Numbers 5.25: 25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

Numbers 5.26: 26 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

Numbers 5.27: 27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.

Numbers 5.28: 28 If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.2

Numbers 5.29: 29 “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,

Numbers 5.30: 30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

Numbers 5.31: 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”

Numbers 6.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,

Numbers 6.3: 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

Numbers 6.4: 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.

Numbers 6.5: 5 “‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

Numbers 6.6: 6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

Numbers 6.7: 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God 1 is on his head.

Numbers 6.9: 9 “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.

Numbers 6.10: 10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 6.11: 11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.

Numbers 6.12: 12 He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

Numbers 6.13: 13 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 6.14: 14 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings,

Numbers 6.15: 15 a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.

Numbers 6.16: 16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Numbers 6.17: 17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 6.18: 18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

Numbers 6.19: 19 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;

Numbers 6.20: 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Numbers 6.21: 21 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’”

Numbers 6.23: 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,

Numbers 6.27: 27 “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”

Numbers 7.1: 7On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;

Numbers 7.2: 2 the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted;

Numbers 7.3: 3 and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.

Numbers 7.5: 5 “Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”

Numbers 7.6: 6 Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

Numbers 7.7: 7 He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.

Numbers 7.8: 8 He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 7.9: 9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

Numbers 7.10: 10 The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar.

Numbers 7.11: 11 Yahweh said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”

Numbers 7.12: 12 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.17: 17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Numbers 7.18: 18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.23: 23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

Numbers 7.24: 24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.29: 29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

Numbers 7.30: 30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.35: 35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Numbers 7.36: 36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.41: 41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Numbers 7.42: 42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.47: 47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Numbers 7.48: 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.53: 53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 7.54: 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.59: 59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 7.60: 60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.65: 65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Numbers 7.66: 66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.71: 71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Numbers 7.72: 72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.77: 77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Numbers 7.78: 78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali,

one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7.83: 83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

Numbers 7.84: 84 This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;

Numbers 7.85: 85 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

Numbers 7.86: 86 the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;

Numbers 7.87: 87 all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;

Numbers 7.88: 88 and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering of the altar, after it was anointed.

Numbers 7.89: 89 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

Numbers 8.2: 2 “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”

Numbers 8.3: 3 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 8.4: 4 This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses.

Numbers 8.6: 6 “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Numbers 8.7: 7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

Numbers 8.8: 8 Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

Numbers 8.9: 9 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

Numbers 8.10: 10 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

Numbers 8.11: 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

Numbers 8.12: 12 “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.

Numbers 8.13: 13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.

Numbers 8.14: 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

Numbers 8.15: 15 “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

Numbers 8.16: 16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.

Numbers 8.17: 17 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

Numbers 8.18: 18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

Numbers 8.19: 19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”

Numbers 8.20: 20 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

Numbers 8.21: 21 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

Numbers 8.22: 22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Numbers 8.24: 24 “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

Numbers 8.25: 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,

Numbers 8.26: 26 but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”

Numbers 9.1: 9Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 9.2: 2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

Numbers 9.3: 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”

Numbers 9.4: 4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

Numbers 9.5: 5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Numbers 9.6: 6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Numbers 9.7: 7 Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”

Numbers 9.8: 8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”

Numbers 9.10: 10 “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

Numbers 9.11: 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Numbers 9.12: 12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

Numbers 9.13: 13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 9.14: 14 “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”

Numbers 9.15: 15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

Numbers 9.16: 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Numbers 9.17: 17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.

Numbers 9.18: 18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

Numbers 9.19: 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t travel.

Numbers 9.20: 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.

Numbers 9.21: 21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.

Numbers 9.22: 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

Numbers 9.23: 23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

Numbers 10.2: 2 “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.

Numbers 10.3: 3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 10.4: 4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

Numbers 10.5: 5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.

Numbers 10.6: 6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Numbers 10.7: 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

Numbers 10.8: 8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

Numbers 10.9: 9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

Numbers 10.10: 10 “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”

Numbers 10.11: 11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.

Numbers 10.12: 12 The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10.13: 13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

Numbers 10.14: 14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

Numbers 10.15: 15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.

Numbers 10.16: 16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.

Numbers 10.17: 17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

Numbers 10.18: 18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

Numbers 10.19: 19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

Numbers 10.20: 20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.

Numbers 10.21: 21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

Numbers 10.22: 22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

Numbers 10.23: 23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.

Numbers 10.24: 24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.

Numbers 10.25: 25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.

Numbers 10.26: 26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.

Numbers 10.27: 27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.

Numbers 10.28: 28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.

Numbers 10.29: 29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”

Numbers 10.30: 30 He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”

Numbers 10.31: 31 Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

Numbers 10.32: 32 It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.”

Numbers 10.33: 33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

Numbers 10.34: 34 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.

Numbers 10.35: 35 When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”

Numbers 10.36: 36 When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”

Numbers 11.1: 11The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11.2: 2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

Numbers 11.3: 3 The name of that place was called Taberah,1 because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.

Numbers 11.4: 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

Numbers 11.5: 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

Numbers 11.6: 6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

Numbers 11.7: 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.2

Numbers 11.8: 8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

Numbers 11.9: 9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Numbers 11.10: 10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

Numbers 11.11: 11 Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

Numbers 11.12: 12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

Numbers 11.13: 13 Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

Numbers 11.14: 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

Numbers 11.15: 15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 11.16: 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

Numbers 11.17: 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

Numbers 11.18: 18 “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.

Numbers 11.19: 19 You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

Numbers 11.20: 20 but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”

Numbers 11.21: 21 Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’

Numbers 11.22: 22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

Numbers 11.23: 23 Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

Numbers 11.24: 24 Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

Numbers 11.25: 25 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

Numbers 11.26: 26 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

Numbers 11.27: 27 A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

Numbers 11.28: 28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”

Numbers 11.29: 29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

Numbers 11.31: 31 A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits3 above the surface of the earth.

Numbers 11.32: 32 The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; 4 and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.

Numbers 11.33: 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

Numbers 11.34: 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,5 because there they buried the people who lusted.

Numbers 11.35: 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.

Numbers 12.1: 12Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

Numbers 12.2: 2 They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

Numbers 12.3: 3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Numbers 12.4: 4 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!”

Numbers 12.5: 5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.

Numbers 12.6: 6 He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

Numbers 12.8: 8 With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

Numbers 12.10: 10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

Numbers 12.11: 11 Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

Numbers 12.12: 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Numbers 12.13: 13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”

Numbers 12.14: 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”

Numbers 12.15: 15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.

Numbers 12.16: 16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13.2: 2 “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”

Numbers 13.3: 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers 13.11: 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Numbers 13.16: 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

Numbers 13.17: 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.

Numbers 13.18: 18 See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

Numbers 13.19: 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;

Numbers 13.20: 20 and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

Numbers 13.21: 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

Numbers 13.22: 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13.23: 23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

Numbers 13.24: 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

Numbers 13.25: 25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Numbers 13.26: 26 They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13.27: 27 They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Numbers 13.28: 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

Numbers 13.29: 29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”

Numbers 13.30: 30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

Numbers 13.31: 31 But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

Numbers 13.32: 32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

Numbers 13.33: 33 There we saw the Nephilim,1 the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim.2 We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

Numbers 14.1: 14All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Numbers 14.2: 2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14.3: 3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

Numbers 14.4: 4 They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

Numbers 14.5: 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Numbers 14.6: 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

Numbers 14.7: 7 They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

Numbers 14.8: 8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

Numbers 14.9: 9 Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

Numbers 14.10: 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.

Numbers 14.11: 11 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Numbers 14.12: 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Numbers 14.13: 13 Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.

Numbers 14.14: 14 They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 14.15: 15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

Numbers 14.16: 16 ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’

Numbers 14.17: 17 Now please let the power of the Lord1 be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

Numbers 14.18: 18 ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Numbers 14.19: 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

Numbers 14.21: 21 but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

Numbers 14.22: 22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

Numbers 14.23: 23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.

Numbers 14.24: 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

Numbers 14.25: 25 Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

Numbers 14.27: 27 “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

Numbers 14.28: 28 Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

Numbers 14.29: 29 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

Numbers 14.30: 30 surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 14.31: 31 But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Numbers 14.32: 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14.33: 33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

Numbers 14.34: 34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

Numbers 14.35: 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

Numbers 14.36: 36 The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

Numbers 14.37: 37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

Numbers 14.38: 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

Numbers 14.39: 39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

Numbers 14.40: 40 They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”

Numbers 14.41: 41 Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

Numbers 14.42: 42 Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.

Numbers 14.43: 43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”

Numbers 14.44: 44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.

Numbers 14.45: 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

Numbers 15.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

Numbers 15.3: 3 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—

Numbers 15.4: 4 then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah1 of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin2 of oil.

Numbers 15.5: 5 You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

Numbers 15.6: 6 “‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah3 of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;

Numbers 15.7: 7 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Numbers 15.8: 8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh,

Numbers 15.9: 9 then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah4 of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;

Numbers 15.10: 10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Numbers 15.11: 11 Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.

Numbers 15.12: 12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.

Numbers 15.13: 13 “‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Numbers 15.14: 14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do.

Numbers 15.15: 15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh.

Numbers 15.16: 16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”

Numbers 15.18: 18 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,

Numbers 15.19: 19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.

Numbers 15.20: 20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.

Numbers 15.21: 21 Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.

Numbers 15.22: 22 “‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—

Numbers 15.23: 23 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—

Numbers 15.24: 24 then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

Numbers 15.25: 25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.

Numbers 15.26: 26 All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.

Numbers 15.27: 27 “‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

Numbers 15.28: 28 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before Yahweh. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

Numbers 15.29: 29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.

Numbers 15.30: 30 “‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15.31: 31 Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”

Numbers 15.32: 32 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

Numbers 15.33: 33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

Numbers 15.34: 34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Numbers 15.35: 35 Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

Numbers 15.36: 36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 15.38: 38 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes5 on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe 6 of each border a cord of blue.

Numbers 15.39: 39 It shall be to you for a fringe,7 that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Numbers 15.40: 40 so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

Numbers 15.41: 41 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.”

Numbers 16.1: 16Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.

Numbers 16.2: 2 They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

Numbers 16.3: 3 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

Numbers 16.5: 5 He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

Numbers 16.7: 7 put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”

Numbers 16.9: 9 Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

Numbers 16.10: 10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?

Numbers 16.11: 11 Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

Numbers 16.12: 12 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

Numbers 16.13: 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

Numbers 16.14: 14 Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

Numbers 16.15: 15 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

Numbers 16.16: 16 Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

Numbers 16.17: 17 Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”

Numbers 16.18: 18 They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 16.19: 19 Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 16.21: 21 “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

Numbers 16.22: 22 They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

Numbers 16.24: 24 “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”

Numbers 16.25: 25 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

Numbers 16.26: 26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

Numbers 16.27: 27 So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

Numbers 16.28: 28 Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

Numbers 16.29: 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.

Numbers 16.30: 30 But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol,1 then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

Numbers 16.31: 31 As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.

Numbers 16.32: 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

Numbers 16.33: 33 So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. 2 The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Numbers 16.34: 34 All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

Numbers 16.35: 35 Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Numbers 16.37: 37 “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,

Numbers 16.38: 38 even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

Numbers 16.39: 39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

Numbers 16.40: 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.

Numbers 16.41: 41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

Numbers 16.42: 42 When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and Yahweh’s glory appeared.

Numbers 16.45: 45 “Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

Numbers 16.46: 46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”

Numbers 16.47: 47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

Numbers 16.48: 48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Numbers 16.49: 49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.

Numbers 16.50: 50 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.

Numbers 17.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.

Numbers 17.3: 3 You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

Numbers 17.4: 4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.

Numbers 17.5: 5 It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”

Numbers 17.6: 6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods.

Numbers 17.7: 7 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.

Numbers 17.8: 8 On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

Numbers 17.9: 9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod.

Numbers 17.10: 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”

Numbers 17.12: 12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

Numbers 17.13: 13 Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

Numbers 18.1: 18Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

Numbers 18.2: 2 Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.

Numbers 18.3: 3 They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.

Numbers 18.4: 4 They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.

Numbers 18.5: 5 “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

Numbers 18.6: 6 Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 18.7: 7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 18.8: 8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

Numbers 18.9: 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

Numbers 18.10: 10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

Numbers 18.11: 11 “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

Numbers 18.12: 12 “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.

Numbers 18.13: 13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

Numbers 18.15: 15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

Numbers 18.16: 16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel1 of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.2

Numbers 18.17: 17 “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Numbers 18.18: 18 Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.

Numbers 18.19: 19 All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”

Numbers 18.20: 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

Numbers 18.21: 21 “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 18.22: 22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

Numbers 18.23: 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.

Numbers 18.24: 24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”

Numbers 18.26: 26 “Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.

Numbers 18.27: 27 Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.

Numbers 18.28: 28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.

Numbers 18.29: 29 Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’

Numbers 18.30: 30 “Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.

Numbers 18.31: 31 You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 18.32: 32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”

Numbers 19.2: 2 “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.

Numbers 19.3: 3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.

Numbers 19.4: 4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.

Numbers 19.5: 5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.

Numbers 19.6: 6 The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.

Numbers 19.7: 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19.8: 8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19.9: 9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.

Numbers 19.10: 10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

Numbers 19.11: 11 “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19.12: 12 He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Numbers 19.13: 13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.

Numbers 19.14: 14 “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19.15: 15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

Numbers 19.16: 16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19.17: 17 “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.

Numbers 19.18: 18 A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

Numbers 19.19: 19 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

Numbers 19.20: 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

Numbers 19.21: 21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19.22: 22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”

Numbers 20.1: 20The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

Numbers 20.2: 2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

Numbers 20.3: 3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

Numbers 20.4: 4 Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

Numbers 20.5: 5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”

Numbers 20.6: 6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.

Numbers 20.8: 8 “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”

Numbers 20.10: 10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

Numbers 20.11: 11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

Numbers 20.12: 12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Numbers 20.13: 13 These are the waters of Meribah;1 because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

Numbers 20.14: 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:

Numbers 20.15: 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.

Numbers 20.16: 16 When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.

Numbers 20.17: 17 “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”

Numbers 20.18: 18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”

Numbers 20.19: 19 The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”

Numbers 20.20: 20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

Numbers 20.21: 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

Numbers 20.22: 22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

Numbers 20.23: 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

Numbers 20.24: 24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 20.25: 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;

Numbers 20.26: 26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”

Numbers 20.27: 27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

Numbers 20.28: 28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

Numbers 20.29: 29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Numbers 21.1: 21The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

Numbers 21.2: 2 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

Numbers 21.3: 3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.1

Numbers 21.4: 4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

Numbers 21.5: 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

Numbers 21.6: 6 Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

Numbers 21.7: 7 The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

Numbers 21.8: 8 Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

Numbers 21.9: 9 Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.

Numbers 21.11: 11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.

Numbers 21.12: 12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.

Numbers 21.13: 13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

Numbers 21.14: 14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

Numbers 21.15: 15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”

Numbers 21.16: 16 From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

Numbers 21.20: 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

Numbers 21.22: 22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”

Numbers 21.23: 23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.

Numbers 21.24: 24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.

Numbers 21.25: 25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

Numbers 21.26: 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

Numbers 21.32: 32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 21.33: 33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Numbers 21.34: 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

Numbers 21.35: 35 So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.

Numbers 22.1: 22The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

Numbers 22.2: 2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

Numbers 22.3: 3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Numbers 22.4: 4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.”

Numbers 22.5: 5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

Numbers 22.6: 6 Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 22.7: 7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

Numbers 22.8: 8 He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Numbers 22.10: 10 Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,

Numbers 22.11: 11 ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”

Numbers 22.12: 12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Numbers 22.13: 13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”

Numbers 22.14: 14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”

Numbers 22.16: 16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

Numbers 22.17: 17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”

Numbers 22.18: 18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

Numbers 22.19: 19 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”

Numbers 22.20: 20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”

Numbers 22.21: 21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

Numbers 22.22: 22 God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Numbers 22.23: 23 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.

Numbers 22.24: 24 Then Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

Numbers 22.25: 25 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.

Numbers 22.26: 26 Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

Numbers 22.27: 27 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

Numbers 22.28: 28 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

Numbers 22.29: 29 Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”

Numbers 22.30: 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?”

Numbers 22.31: 31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

Numbers 22.32: 32 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

Numbers 22.33: 33 The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”

Numbers 22.34: 34 Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”

Numbers 22.35: 35 Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.”

Numbers 22.36: 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

Numbers 22.37: 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”

Numbers 22.38: 38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

Numbers 22.40: 40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

Numbers 22.41: 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.

Numbers 23.1: 23Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

Numbers 23.2: 2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

Numbers 23.3: 3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”

Numbers 23.4: 4 God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

Numbers 23.5: 5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Numbers 23.6: 6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

Numbers 23.11: 11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

Numbers 23.12: 12 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

Numbers 23.13: 13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”

Numbers 23.14: 14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 23.15: 15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”

Numbers 23.16: 16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

Numbers 23.17: 17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”

Numbers 23.25: 25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”

Numbers 23.26: 26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”

Numbers 23.27: 27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 23.28: 28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

Numbers 23.29: 29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

Numbers 23.30: 30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 24.1: 24When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Numbers 24.2: 2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

Numbers 24.10: 10 Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

Numbers 24.11: 11 Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”

Numbers 24.12: 12 Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

Numbers 24.13: 13 ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?

Numbers 24.14: 14 Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

Numbers 24.25: 25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

Numbers 25.1: 25Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

Numbers 25.2: 2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Numbers 25.3: 3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

Numbers 25.4: 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”

Numbers 25.5: 5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

Numbers 25.6: 6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 25.7: 7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

Numbers 25.8: 8 He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

Numbers 25.11: 11 “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Numbers 25.13: 13 It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”

Numbers 25.14: 14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.

Numbers 25.15: 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.

Numbers 25.18: 18 for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”

Numbers 26.1: 26After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Numbers 26.2: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

Numbers 26.3: 3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Numbers 26.4: 4 “Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.”

Numbers 26.5: 5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

Numbers 26.6: 6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

Numbers 26.7: 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

Numbers 26.9: 9 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;

Numbers 26.10: 10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

Numbers 26.12: 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

Numbers 26.13: 13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

Numbers 26.14: 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 26.15: 15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

Numbers 26.16: 16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

Numbers 26.17: 17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

Numbers 26.18: 18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 26.19: 19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 26.20: 20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

Numbers 26.21: 21 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

Numbers 26.22: 22 These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 26.23: 23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

Numbers 26.24: 24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

Numbers 26.25: 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

Numbers 26.26: 26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

Numbers 26.27: 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.

Numbers 26.28: 28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

Numbers 26.29: 29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

Numbers 26.30: 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

Numbers 26.31: 31 and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

Numbers 26.32: 32 and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

Numbers 26.33: 33 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 26.34: 34 These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

Numbers 26.35: 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

Numbers 26.36: 36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

Numbers 26.37: 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

Numbers 26.38: 38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

Numbers 26.39: 39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

Numbers 26.40: 40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

Numbers 26.41: 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

Numbers 26.42: 42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.

Numbers 26.43: 43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 26.44: 44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.

Numbers 26.45: 45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

Numbers 26.47: 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

Numbers 26.48: 48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

Numbers 26.49: 49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

Numbers 26.50: 50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

Numbers 26.51: 51 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.

Numbers 26.53: 53 “To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Numbers 26.54: 54 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.

Numbers 26.55: 55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Numbers 26.56: 56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”

Numbers 26.57: 57 These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

Numbers 26.58: 58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.

Numbers 26.59: 59 The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

Numbers 26.61: 61 Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.

Numbers 26.62: 62 Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

Numbers 26.63: 63 These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Numbers 26.64: 64 But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 26.65: 65 For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 27.1: 27Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 27.2: 2 They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Numbers 27.3: 3 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

Numbers 27.4: 4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

Numbers 27.7: 7 “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

Numbers 27.8: 8 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

Numbers 27.9: 9 If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

Numbers 27.10: 10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

Numbers 27.11: 11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”

Numbers 27.12: 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

Numbers 27.13: 13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

Numbers 27.14: 14 because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

Numbers 27.16: 16 “Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Numbers 27.17: 17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Numbers 27.18: 18 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

Numbers 27.19: 19 Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.

Numbers 27.20: 20 You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

Numbers 27.21: 21 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

Numbers 27.22: 22 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.

Numbers 27.23: 23 He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.

Numbers 28.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’

Numbers 28.3: 3 You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.

Numbers 28.4: 4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,

Numbers 28.5: 5 with one tenth of an ephah1 of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin2 of beaten oil.

Numbers 28.6: 6 It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Numbers 28.7: 7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin3 for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.

Numbers 28.8: 8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Numbers 28.9: 9 “‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah4 of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

Numbers 28.10: 10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 28.11: 11 “‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,

Numbers 28.12: 12 and three tenths of an ephah5 of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one ram;

Numbers 28.13: 13 and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Numbers 28.14: 14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

Numbers 28.15: 15 Also, one male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 28.16: 16 “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.

Numbers 28.17: 17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.

Numbers 28.18: 18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,

Numbers 28.19: 19 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,

Numbers 28.20: 20 with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.

Numbers 28.22: 22 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

Numbers 28.23: 23 You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

Numbers 28.24: 24 In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 28.25: 25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

Numbers 28.26: 26 “‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;

Numbers 28.27: 27 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;

Numbers 28.28: 28 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,

Numbers 28.31: 31 Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.

Numbers 29.1: 29“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.

Numbers 29.2: 2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.3: 3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

Numbers 29.5: 5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

Numbers 29.6: 6 in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Numbers 29.7: 7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

Numbers 29.8: 8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;

Numbers 29.9: 9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,

Numbers 29.11: 11 one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

Numbers 29.12: 12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.

Numbers 29.13: 13 You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;

Numbers 29.14: 14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,

Numbers 29.16: 16 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29.17: 17 “‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.18: 18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

Numbers 29.19: 19 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.

Numbers 29.20: 20 “‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.21: 21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

Numbers 29.22: 22 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29.23: 23 “‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.24: 24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

Numbers 29.25: 25 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29.26: 26 “‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.27: 27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

Numbers 29.28: 28 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29.29: 29 “‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.30: 30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

Numbers 29.31: 31 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.

Numbers 29.32: 32 “‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.33: 33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

Numbers 29.34: 34 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29.35: 35 “‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work;

Numbers 29.36: 36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

Numbers 29.37: 37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance,

Numbers 29.38: 38 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 29.39: 39 “‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”

Numbers 29.40: 40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 30.1: 30Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.

Numbers 30.2: 2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Numbers 30.3: 3 “Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

Numbers 30.4: 4 and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30.5: 5 But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.

Numbers 30.6: 6 “If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,

Numbers 30.7: 7 and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30.8: 8 But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

Numbers 30.9: 9 “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

Numbers 30.10: 10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

Numbers 30.11: 11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30.12: 12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.

Numbers 30.13: 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Numbers 30.14: 14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.

Numbers 30.15: 15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

Numbers 30.16: 16 These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.

Numbers 31.2: 2 “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

Numbers 31.3: 3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

Numbers 31.4: 4 You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”

Numbers 31.5: 5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Numbers 31.6: 6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Numbers 31.7: 7 They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.

Numbers 31.8: 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

Numbers 31.9: 9 The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

Numbers 31.10: 10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.

Numbers 31.11: 11 They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.

Numbers 31.12: 12 They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

Numbers 31.13: 13 Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.

Numbers 31.14: 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

Numbers 31.16: 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

Numbers 31.17: 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Numbers 31.18: 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Numbers 31.19: 19 “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

Numbers 31.20: 20 You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”

Numbers 31.21: 21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:

Numbers 31.22: 22 however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Numbers 31.23: 23 everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

Numbers 31.24: 24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”

Numbers 31.26: 26 “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;

Numbers 31.27: 27 and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

Numbers 31.28: 28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

Numbers 31.29: 29 Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.

Numbers 31.30: 30 Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”

Numbers 31.32: 32 Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

Numbers 31.35: 35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

Numbers 31.36: 36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;

Numbers 31.37: 37 and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

Numbers 31.38: 38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.

Numbers 31.39: 39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.

Numbers 31.40: 40 The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.

Numbers 31.41: 41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 31.42: 42 Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought

Numbers 31.43: 43 (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

Numbers 31.47: 47 even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 31.48: 48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

Numbers 31.49: 49 They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

Numbers 31.50: 50 We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”

Numbers 31.51: 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.

Numbers 31.52: 52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.1

Numbers 31.54: 54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

Numbers 32.1: 32Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.

Numbers 32.2: 2 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

Numbers 32.3: 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Numbers 32.4: 4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”

Numbers 32.5: 5 They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

Numbers 32.6: 6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

Numbers 32.7: 7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

Numbers 32.8: 8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

Numbers 32.9: 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

Numbers 32.11: 11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

Numbers 32.12: 12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely.’

Numbers 32.13: 13 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.

Numbers 32.14: 14 “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.

Numbers 32.15: 15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

Numbers 32.16: 16 They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;

Numbers 32.17: 17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Numbers 32.18: 18 We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.

Numbers 32.19: 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”

Numbers 32.20: 20 Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

Numbers 32.21: 21 and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

Numbers 32.22: 22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before Yahweh.

Numbers 32.23: 23 “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Numbers 32.24: 24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”

Numbers 32.25: 25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

Numbers 32.26: 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

Numbers 32.27: 27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”

Numbers 32.28: 28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.

Numbers 32.29: 29 Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

Numbers 32.30: 30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

Numbers 32.31: 31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.

Numbers 32.32: 32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

Numbers 32.33: 33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

Numbers 32.36: 36 Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.

Numbers 32.38: 38 Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.

Numbers 32.39: 39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

Numbers 32.40: 40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

Numbers 32.41: 41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

Numbers 32.42: 42 Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Numbers 33.1: 33These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 33.2: 2 Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their starting points.

Numbers 33.3: 3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Numbers 33.4: 4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them. Yahweh also executed judgments on their gods.

Numbers 33.5: 5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

Numbers 33.6: 6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

Numbers 33.7: 7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.

Numbers 33.8: 8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

Numbers 33.9: 9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

Numbers 33.11: 11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

Numbers 33.12: 12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

Numbers 33.14: 14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Numbers 33.15: 15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 33.16: 16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

Numbers 33.17: 17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.

Numbers 33.32: 32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.

Numbers 33.36: 36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

Numbers 33.37: 37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

Numbers 33.38: 38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

Numbers 33.39: 39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.

Numbers 33.40: 40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

Numbers 33.44: 44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.

Numbers 33.46: 46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.

Numbers 33.47: 47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

Numbers 33.48: 48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Numbers 33.49: 49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.

Numbers 33.50: 50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Numbers 33.51: 51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Numbers 33.52: 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

Numbers 33.53: 53 You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.

Numbers 33.54: 54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

Numbers 33.55: 55 “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

Numbers 33.56: 56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”

Numbers 34.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),

Numbers 34.3: 3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.

Numbers 34.4: 4 Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.

Numbers 34.5: 5 The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.

Numbers 34.6: 6 “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.

Numbers 34.7: 7 “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.

Numbers 34.8: 8 From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.

Numbers 34.9: 9 Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.

Numbers 34.10: 10 “‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

Numbers 34.11: 11 The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.

Numbers 34.12: 12 The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”

Numbers 34.13: 13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;

Numbers 34.14: 14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

Numbers 34.15: 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

Numbers 34.17: 17 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 34.18: 18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

Numbers 34.19: 19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

Numbers 34.20: 20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 34.22: 22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

Numbers 34.23: 23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

Numbers 34.24: 24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

Numbers 34.25: 25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

Numbers 34.26: 26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

Numbers 34.27: 27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

Numbers 34.28: 28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

Numbers 34.29: 29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 35.1: 35Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Numbers 35.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.

Numbers 35.3: 3 They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.

Numbers 35.4: 4 “The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits1 around it.

Numbers 35.5: 5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.

Numbers 35.6: 6 “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

Numbers 35.7: 7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.

Numbers 35.8: 8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”

Numbers 35.10: 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Numbers 35.11: 11 then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Numbers 35.12: 12 The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Numbers 35.13: 13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35.14: 14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.

Numbers 35.15: 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Numbers 35.16: 16 “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35.17: 17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35.18: 18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35.19: 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Numbers 35.20: 20 If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

Numbers 35.21: 21 or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

Numbers 35.22: 22 “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

Numbers 35.23: 23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,

Numbers 35.24: 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

Numbers 35.25: 25 The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35.26: 26 “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,

Numbers 35.27: 27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,

Numbers 35.28: 28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Numbers 35.29: 29 “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Numbers 35.30: 30 “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.

Numbers 35.31: 31 “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35.32: 32 “‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

Numbers 35.33: 33 “‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Numbers 35.34: 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’”

Numbers 36.1: 36The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.

Numbers 36.2: 2 They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

Numbers 36.3: 3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

Numbers 36.4: 4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

Numbers 36.5: 5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right.

Numbers 36.6: 6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

Numbers 36.7: 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Numbers 36.8: 8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

Numbers 36.9: 9 So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”

Numbers 36.11: 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.

Numbers 36.12: 12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

Numbers 36.13: 13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Deuteronomy 1.1: 1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 1.2: 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

Deuteronomy 1.3: 3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh1 had given him in commandment to them,

Deuteronomy 1.4: 4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 1.5: 5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

Deuteronomy 1.6: 6 “Yahweh our God2 spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.

Deuteronomy 1.7: 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 1.8: 8 Behold,3 I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring4 after them.’”

Deuteronomy 1.9: 9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.

Deuteronomy 1.10: 10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 1.11: 11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!

Deuteronomy 1.12: 12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

Deuteronomy 1.13: 13 Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

Deuteronomy 1.14: 14 You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

Deuteronomy 1.15: 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

Deuteronomy 1.16: 16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

Deuteronomy 1.17: 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 1.18: 18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

Deuteronomy 1.19: 19 We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

Deuteronomy 1.20: 20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

Deuteronomy 1.21: 21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

Deuteronomy 1.22: 22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”

Deuteronomy 1.23: 23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.

Deuteronomy 1.24: 24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

Deuteronomy 1.25: 25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”

Deuteronomy 1.26: 26 Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 1.27: 27 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Deuteronomy 1.28: 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”

Deuteronomy 1.29: 29 Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.

Deuteronomy 1.30: 30 Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deuteronomy 1.31: 31 and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

Deuteronomy 1.33: 33 who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

Deuteronomy 1.34: 34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,

Deuteronomy 1.35: 35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 1.36: 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”

Deuteronomy 1.37: 37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.

Deuteronomy 1.38: 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 1.39: 39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Deuteronomy 1.40: 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

Deuteronomy 1.41: 41 Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1.42: 42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”

Deuteronomy 1.43: 43 So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1.44: 44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

Deuteronomy 1.45: 45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.

Deuteronomy 1.46: 46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

Deuteronomy 2.1: 2Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.

Deuteronomy 2.3: 3 “You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.

Deuteronomy 2.4: 4 Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.

Deuteronomy 2.5: 5 Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

Deuteronomy 2.6: 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”

Deuteronomy 2.7: 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 2.8: 8 So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

Deuteronomy 2.9: 9 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”

Deuteronomy 2.10: 10 (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.

Deuteronomy 2.11: 11 These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

Deuteronomy 2.12: 12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)

Deuteronomy 2.13: 13 “Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.

Deuteronomy 2.14: 14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

Deuteronomy 2.15: 15 Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

Deuteronomy 2.16: 16 So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Deuteronomy 2.19: 19 When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”

Deuteronomy 2.20: 20 (That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Deuteronomy 2.21: 21 a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

Deuteronomy 2.22: 22 as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.

Deuteronomy 2.23: 23 Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)

Deuteronomy 2.24: 24 “Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

Deuteronomy 2.25: 25 Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

Deuteronomy 2.26: 26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

Deuteronomy 2.27: 27 “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 2.28: 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,

Deuteronomy 2.29: 29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”

Deuteronomy 2.30: 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 2.31: 31 Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”

Deuteronomy 2.32: 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.

Deuteronomy 2.33: 33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.

Deuteronomy 2.34: 34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.

Deuteronomy 2.35: 35 Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.

Deuteronomy 2.36: 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.

Deuteronomy 2.37: 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.

Deuteronomy 3.1: 3Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 3.2: 2 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

Deuteronomy 3.3: 3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.

Deuteronomy 3.4: 4 We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3.5: 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.

Deuteronomy 3.6: 6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

Deuteronomy 3.7: 7 But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 3.8: 8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.

Deuteronomy 3.9: 9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

Deuteronomy 3.10: 10 We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3.11: 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits1 was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)

Deuteronomy 3.12: 12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;

Deuteronomy 3.13: 13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.

Deuteronomy 3.14: 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)

Deuteronomy 3.16: 16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

Deuteronomy 3.17: 17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Deuteronomy 3.18: 18 I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 3.19: 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

Deuteronomy 3.20: 20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”

Deuteronomy 3.21: 21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.

Deuteronomy 3.22: 22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”

Deuteronomy 3.24: 24 “Lord2 Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?

Deuteronomy 3.25: 25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”

Deuteronomy 3.26: 26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.

Deuteronomy 3.27: 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 3.28: 28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”

Deuteronomy 4.1: 4Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

Deuteronomy 4.2: 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4.3: 3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.

Deuteronomy 4.4: 4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.

Deuteronomy 4.5: 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4.6: 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 4.7: 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Deuteronomy 4.8: 8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

Deuteronomy 4.9: 9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Deuteronomy 4.10: 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

Deuteronomy 4.11: 11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

Deuteronomy 4.12: 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

Deuteronomy 4.13: 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

Deuteronomy 4.14: 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4.15: 15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

Deuteronomy 4.16: 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Deuteronomy 4.17: 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

Deuteronomy 4.18: 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

Deuteronomy 4.19: 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Deuteronomy 4.20: 20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4.21: 21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;

Deuteronomy 4.22: 22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.

Deuteronomy 4.23: 23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

Deuteronomy 4.25: 25 When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,

Deuteronomy 4.26: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4.27: 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.

Deuteronomy 4.28: 28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Deuteronomy 4.29: 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4.30: 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 4.31: 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

Deuteronomy 4.32: 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?

Deuteronomy 4.33: 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Deuteronomy 4.34: 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4.35: 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

Deuteronomy 4.36: 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4.37: 37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

Deuteronomy 4.38: 38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4.39: 39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Deuteronomy 4.40: 40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

Deuteronomy 4.41: 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,

Deuteronomy 4.42: 42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

Deuteronomy 4.43: 43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Deuteronomy 4.44: 44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4.45: 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 4.46: 46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4.47: 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

Deuteronomy 4.48: 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),

Deuteronomy 4.49: 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 5.1: 5Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”

Deuteronomy 5.3: 3 Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.

Deuteronomy 5.4: 4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

Deuteronomy 5.5: 5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,

Deuteronomy 5.6: 6 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 5.8: 8 “You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Deuteronomy 5.9: 9 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

Deuteronomy 5.10: 10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5.11: 11 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God;1 for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

Deuteronomy 5.12: 12 “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

Deuteronomy 5.14: 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Deuteronomy 5.15: 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5.16: 16 “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 5.20: 20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 5.21: 21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Deuteronomy 5.22: 22 Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5.23: 23 When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

Deuteronomy 5.24: 24 and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.

Deuteronomy 5.25: 25 Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.

Deuteronomy 5.26: 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 5.27: 27 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”

Deuteronomy 5.28: 28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.

Deuteronomy 5.29: 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Deuteronomy 5.31: 31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”

Deuteronomy 5.32: 32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 5.33: 33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6.1: 6Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;

Deuteronomy 6.2: 2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Deuteronomy 6.3: 3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6.5: 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6.6: 6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Deuteronomy 6.7: 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 6.8: 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 6.9: 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6.10: 10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,

Deuteronomy 6.11: 11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;

Deuteronomy 6.12: 12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 6.13: 13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 6.14: 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

Deuteronomy 6.15: 15 for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 6.16: 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Deuteronomy 6.17: 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 6.18: 18 You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 6.19: 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

Deuteronomy 6.20: 20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”

Deuteronomy 6.21: 21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Deuteronomy 6.22: 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

Deuteronomy 6.23: 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.

Deuteronomy 6.24: 24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

Deuteronomy 6.25: 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Deuteronomy 7.1: 7When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;

Deuteronomy 7.2: 2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

Deuteronomy 7.3: 3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

Deuteronomy 7.4: 4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Deuteronomy 7.5: 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

Deuteronomy 7.6: 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7.7: 7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

Deuteronomy 7.8: 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7.9: 9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Deuteronomy 7.10: 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

Deuteronomy 7.11: 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.

Deuteronomy 7.12: 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 7.13: 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 7.14: 14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Deuteronomy 7.15: 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

Deuteronomy 7.16: 16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7.17: 17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

Deuteronomy 7.18: 18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

Deuteronomy 7.19: 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Deuteronomy 7.20: 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

Deuteronomy 7.21: 21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

Deuteronomy 7.22: 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

Deuteronomy 7.23: 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7.24: 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 7.25: 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 7.26: 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

Deuteronomy 8.1: 8You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 8.2: 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8.3: 3 He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

Deuteronomy 8.4: 4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

Deuteronomy 8.5: 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 8.6: 6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Deuteronomy 8.7: 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 8.8: 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

Deuteronomy 8.9: 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Deuteronomy 8.10: 10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

Deuteronomy 8.11: 11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

Deuteronomy 8.12: 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

Deuteronomy 8.13: 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

Deuteronomy 8.14: 14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

Deuteronomy 8.15: 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

Deuteronomy 8.16: 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Deuteronomy 8.17: 17 and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Deuteronomy 8.18: 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 8.19: 19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

Deuteronomy 8.20: 20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Deuteronomy 9.1: 9Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Deuteronomy 9.2: 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”

Deuteronomy 9.3: 3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

Deuteronomy 9.4: 4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

Deuteronomy 9.5: 5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9.6: 6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9.7: 7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 9.8: 8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9.9: 9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deuteronomy 9.10: 10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9.11: 11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9.12: 12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”

Deuteronomy 9.13: 13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9.14: 14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

Deuteronomy 9.15: 15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Deuteronomy 9.16: 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9.17: 17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9.18: 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9.19: 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

Deuteronomy 9.20: 20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Deuteronomy 9.21: 21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9.22: 22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

Deuteronomy 9.23: 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 9.24: 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

Deuteronomy 9.25: 25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9.26: 26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9.27: 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

Deuteronomy 9.28: 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

Deuteronomy 9.29: 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

Deuteronomy 10.1: 10At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10.2: 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”

Deuteronomy 10.3: 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

Deuteronomy 10.4: 4 He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 10.5: 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.

Deuteronomy 10.6: 6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.

Deuteronomy 10.7: 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

Deuteronomy 10.8: 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Deuteronomy 10.9: 9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

Deuteronomy 10.10: 10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened to me that time also. Yahweh would not destroy you.

Deuteronomy 10.11: 11 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.”

Deuteronomy 10.12: 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10.13: 13 to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

Deuteronomy 10.14: 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

Deuteronomy 10.15: 15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 10.16: 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Deuteronomy 10.17: 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

Deuteronomy 10.18: 18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10.19: 19 Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10.20: 20 You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 10.21: 21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

Deuteronomy 10.22: 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 11.1: 11Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Deuteronomy 11.2: 2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,

Deuteronomy 11.3: 3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;

Deuteronomy 11.4: 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;

Deuteronomy 11.5: 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

Deuteronomy 11.6: 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;

Deuteronomy 11.7: 7 but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.

Deuteronomy 11.8: 8 Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;

Deuteronomy 11.9: 9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11.10: 10 For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;

Deuteronomy 11.11: 11 but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,

Deuteronomy 11.12: 12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

Deuteronomy 11.13: 13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11.14: 14 that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Deuteronomy 11.15: 15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

Deuteronomy 11.16: 16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

Deuteronomy 11.17: 17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

Deuteronomy 11.18: 18 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 11.19: 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 11.20: 20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates;

Deuteronomy 11.21: 21 that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

Deuteronomy 11.22: 22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

Deuteronomy 11.23: 23 then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

Deuteronomy 11.24: 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.

Deuteronomy 11.25: 25 No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.

Deuteronomy 11.27: 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;

Deuteronomy 11.28: 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

Deuteronomy 11.29: 29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 11.30: 30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

Deuteronomy 11.31: 31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.

Deuteronomy 11.32: 32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.

Deuteronomy 12.1: 12These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.

Deuteronomy 12.2: 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 12.3: 3 You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.

Deuteronomy 12.5: 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

Deuteronomy 12.6: 6 You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.

Deuteronomy 12.7: 7 There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12.8: 8 You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

Deuteronomy 12.9: 9 for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 12.10: 10 But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,

Deuteronomy 12.11: 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 12.12: 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 12.13: 13 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

Deuteronomy 12.14: 14 but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Deuteronomy 12.15: 15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Deuteronomy 12.16: 16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12.17: 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

Deuteronomy 12.18: 18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 12.19: 19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Deuteronomy 12.20: 20 When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

Deuteronomy 12.21: 21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

Deuteronomy 12.22: 22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

Deuteronomy 12.23: 23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 12.24: 24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12.25: 25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 12.26: 26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.

Deuteronomy 12.27: 27 You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.

Deuteronomy 12.28: 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 12.29: 29 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

Deuteronomy 12.30: 30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 12.31: 31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 12.32: 32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

Deuteronomy 13.1: 13If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

Deuteronomy 13.2: 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”

Deuteronomy 13.3: 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 13.4: 4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

Deuteronomy 13.5: 5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 13.6: 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

Deuteronomy 13.7: 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—

Deuteronomy 13.8: 8 you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

Deuteronomy 13.9: 9 but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

Deuteronomy 13.10: 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 13.11: 11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

Deuteronomy 13.12: 12 If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that

Deuteronomy 13.13: 13 certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

Deuteronomy 13.14: 14 then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

Deuteronomy 13.15: 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 13.16: 16 You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.

Deuteronomy 13.17: 17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 13.18: 18 when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 14.1: 14You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deuteronomy 14.2: 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 14.4: 4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deuteronomy 14.5: 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

Deuteronomy 14.6: 6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

Deuteronomy 14.7: 7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Deuteronomy 14.8: 8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.

Deuteronomy 14.9: 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

Deuteronomy 14.10: 10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

Deuteronomy 14.12: 12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

Deuteronomy 14.15: 15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,

Deuteronomy 14.18: 18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Deuteronomy 14.19: 19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

Deuteronomy 14.21: 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 14.22: 22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.

Deuteronomy 14.23: 23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.

Deuteronomy 14.24: 24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,

Deuteronomy 14.25: 25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.

Deuteronomy 14.26: 26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Deuteronomy 14.27: 27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 14.28: 28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

Deuteronomy 14.29: 29 The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deuteronomy 15.2: 2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15.3: 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

Deuteronomy 15.4: 4 However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)

Deuteronomy 15.5: 5 if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.

Deuteronomy 15.6: 6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Deuteronomy 15.7: 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Deuteronomy 15.8: 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

Deuteronomy 15.9: 9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Deuteronomy 15.10: 10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 15.11: 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Deuteronomy 15.12: 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Deuteronomy 15.13: 13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

Deuteronomy 15.14: 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

Deuteronomy 15.15: 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

Deuteronomy 15.16: 16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,

Deuteronomy 15.17: 17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

Deuteronomy 15.18: 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 15.19: 19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

Deuteronomy 15.20: 20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

Deuteronomy 15.21: 21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 15.22: 22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.

Deuteronomy 15.23: 23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 16.1: 16Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deuteronomy 16.2: 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Deuteronomy 16.3: 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Deuteronomy 16.4: 4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

Deuteronomy 16.5: 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;

Deuteronomy 16.6: 6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16.7: 7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.

Deuteronomy 16.8: 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.

Deuteronomy 16.9: 9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.

Deuteronomy 16.10: 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.

Deuteronomy 16.11: 11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Deuteronomy 16.12: 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.

Deuteronomy 16.13: 13 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.

Deuteronomy 16.14: 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

Deuteronomy 16.15: 15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

Deuteronomy 16.16: 16 Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

Deuteronomy 16.17: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.

Deuteronomy 16.18: 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 16.19: 19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16.20: 20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 16.21: 21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 16.22: 22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

Deuteronomy 17.1: 17You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 17.2: 2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,

Deuteronomy 17.3: 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 17.4: 4 and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

Deuteronomy 17.5: 5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

Deuteronomy 17.6: 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Deuteronomy 17.7: 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 17.8: 8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 17.9: 9 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

Deuteronomy 17.10: 10 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.

Deuteronomy 17.11: 11 According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 17.12: 12 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 17.13: 13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deuteronomy 17.14: 14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”

Deuteronomy 17.15: 15 you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

Deuteronomy 17.16: 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

Deuteronomy 17.17: 17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 17.18: 18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.

Deuteronomy 17.19: 19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

Deuteronomy 17.20: 20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Deuteronomy 18.1: 18The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.

Deuteronomy 18.2: 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

Deuteronomy 18.3: 3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.

Deuteronomy 18.4: 4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 18.5: 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons forever.

Deuteronomy 18.6: 6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,

Deuteronomy 18.7: 7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 18.8: 8 They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.

Deuteronomy 18.9: 9 When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 18.10: 10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 18.11: 11 or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Deuteronomy 18.12: 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18.14: 14 For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.

Deuteronomy 18.15: 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18.16: 16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”

Deuteronomy 18.17: 17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.

Deuteronomy 18.18: 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Deuteronomy 18.19: 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Deuteronomy 18.20: 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

Deuteronomy 18.21: 21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”

Deuteronomy 18.22: 22 When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 19.1: 19When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

Deuteronomy 19.2: 2 you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19.3: 3 You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.

Deuteronomy 19.4: 4 This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—

Deuteronomy 19.5: 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.

Deuteronomy 19.6: 6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.

Deuteronomy 19.7: 7 Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 19.8: 8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

Deuteronomy 19.9: 9 and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.

Deuteronomy 19.10: 10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Deuteronomy 19.11: 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

Deuteronomy 19.12: 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19.13: 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 19.14: 14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19.15: 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Deuteronomy 19.16: 16 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Deuteronomy 19.17: 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

Deuteronomy 19.18: 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

Deuteronomy 19.19: 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19.20: 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

Deuteronomy 19.21: 21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 20.1: 20When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 20.2: 2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

Deuteronomy 20.3: 3 and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Deuteronomy 20.4: 4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

Deuteronomy 20.5: 5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 20.6: 6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

Deuteronomy 20.7: 7 What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

Deuteronomy 20.8: 8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

Deuteronomy 20.9: 9 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

Deuteronomy 20.10: 10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

Deuteronomy 20.11: 11 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.

Deuteronomy 20.12: 12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.

Deuteronomy 20.13: 13 When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;

Deuteronomy 20.14: 14 but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 20.15: 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Deuteronomy 20.16: 16 But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

Deuteronomy 20.17: 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

Deuteronomy 20.18: 18 that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 20.19: 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

Deuteronomy 20.20: 20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy 21.1: 21If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,

Deuteronomy 21.2: 2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.

Deuteronomy 21.3: 3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.

Deuteronomy 21.4: 4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21.5: 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.

Deuteronomy 21.6: 6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21.7: 7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21.8: 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21.9: 9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 21.10: 10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,

Deuteronomy 21.11: 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,

Deuteronomy 21.12: 12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

Deuteronomy 21.13: 13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Deuteronomy 21.14: 14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

Deuteronomy 21.15: 15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

Deuteronomy 21.16: 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

Deuteronomy 21.17: 17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

Deuteronomy 21.18: 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 21.19: 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Deuteronomy 21.20: 20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Deuteronomy 21.21: 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 21.22: 22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Deuteronomy 21.23: 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 22.1: 22You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

Deuteronomy 22.2: 2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.

Deuteronomy 22.3: 3 So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.

Deuteronomy 22.4: 4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

Deuteronomy 22.5: 5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 22.6: 6 If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.

Deuteronomy 22.7: 7 You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

Deuteronomy 22.8: 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

Deuteronomy 22.9: 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

Deuteronomy 22.11: 11 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

Deuteronomy 22.12: 12 You shall make yourselves fringes1 on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

Deuteronomy 22.14: 14 accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

Deuteronomy 22.15: 15 then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

Deuteronomy 22.16: 16 The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

Deuteronomy 22.17: 17 Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Deuteronomy 22.18: 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

Deuteronomy 22.19: 19 They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver,2 and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 22.20: 20 But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,

Deuteronomy 22.21: 21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22.22: 22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22.23: 23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,

Deuteronomy 22.24: 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22.25: 25 But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;

Deuteronomy 22.26: 26 but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter;

Deuteronomy 22.27: 27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.

Deuteronomy 22.28: 28 If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,

Deuteronomy 22.29: 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels3 of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 22.30: 30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

Deuteronomy 23.1: 23He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

Deuteronomy 23.2: 2 A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

Deuteronomy 23.3: 3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,

Deuteronomy 23.4: 4 because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Deuteronomy 23.5: 5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

Deuteronomy 23.6: 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Deuteronomy 23.7: 7 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Deuteronomy 23.8: 8 The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

Deuteronomy 23.9: 9 When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

Deuteronomy 23.10: 10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;

Deuteronomy 23.11: 11 but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

Deuteronomy 23.12: 12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.

Deuteronomy 23.13: 13 You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;

Deuteronomy 23.14: 14 for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23.15: 15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.

Deuteronomy 23.16: 16 He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.

Deuteronomy 23.17: 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 23.18: 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute,1 into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 23.19: 19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

Deuteronomy 23.20: 20 You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 23.21: 21 When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 23.22: 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.

Deuteronomy 23.23: 23 You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

Deuteronomy 23.24: 24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.

Deuteronomy 23.25: 25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.

Deuteronomy 24.1: 24When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Deuteronomy 24.2: 2 When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

Deuteronomy 24.3: 3 If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

Deuteronomy 24.4: 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24.5: 5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Deuteronomy 24.6: 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24.7: 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 24.8: 8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

Deuteronomy 24.9: 9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24.10: 10 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

Deuteronomy 24.11: 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.

Deuteronomy 24.13: 13 You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 24.14: 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

Deuteronomy 24.15: 15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Deuteronomy 24.16: 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deuteronomy 24.17: 17 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Deuteronomy 24.18: 18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

Deuteronomy 24.19: 19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24.20: 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deuteronomy 24.21: 21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deuteronomy 24.22: 22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

Deuteronomy 25.1: 25If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

Deuteronomy 25.2: 2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

Deuteronomy 25.3: 3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Deuteronomy 25.5: 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Deuteronomy 25.6: 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

Deuteronomy 25.7: 7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

Deuteronomy 25.8: 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”

Deuteronomy 25.9: 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

Deuteronomy 25.10: 10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”

Deuteronomy 25.11: 11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,

Deuteronomy 25.12: 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

Deuteronomy 25.13: 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

Deuteronomy 25.14: 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

Deuteronomy 25.15: 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 25.16: 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 25.17: 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;

Deuteronomy 25.18: 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

Deuteronomy 25.19: 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.

Deuteronomy 26.1: 26It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,

Deuteronomy 26.2: 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Deuteronomy 26.3: 3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”

Deuteronomy 26.4: 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.

Deuteronomy 26.5: 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father1 was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

Deuteronomy 26.6: 6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

Deuteronomy 26.7: 7 Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

Deuteronomy 26.8: 8 Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

Deuteronomy 26.9: 9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26.10: 10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 26.11: 11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

Deuteronomy 26.12: 12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.

Deuteronomy 26.13: 13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Deuteronomy 26.14: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

Deuteronomy 26.15: 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 26.16: 16 Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 26.17: 17 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 26.18: 18 Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

Deuteronomy 26.19: 19 He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

Deuteronomy 27.1: 27Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.

Deuteronomy 27.2: 2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 27.3: 3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

Deuteronomy 27.4: 4 It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 27.5: 5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.

Deuteronomy 27.6: 6 You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 27.7: 7 You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 27.8: 8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”

Deuteronomy 27.9: 9 Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 27.10: 10 You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”

Deuteronomy 27.12: 12 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Deuteronomy 27.13: 13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 27.14: 14 With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 27.15: 15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’

Deuteronomy 27.16: 16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’

Deuteronomy 27.18: 18 ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’

Deuteronomy 27.19: 19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’

Deuteronomy 27.20: 20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with1 his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’

Deuteronomy 27.22: 22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’

Deuteronomy 27.25: 25 ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’

Deuteronomy 27.26: 26 ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’

Deuteronomy 28.1: 28It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28.2: 2 All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Deuteronomy 28.3: 3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

Deuteronomy 28.4: 4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28.6: 6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28.7: 7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.

Deuteronomy 28.8: 8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 28.9: 9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.

Deuteronomy 28.10: 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.

Deuteronomy 28.11: 11 Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 28.12: 12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 28.13: 13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,

Deuteronomy 28.14: 14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deuteronomy 28.15: 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.

Deuteronomy 28.16: 16 You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

Deuteronomy 28.18: 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28.19: 19 You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28.20: 20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Deuteronomy 28.21: 21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 28.22: 22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28.23: 23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

Deuteronomy 28.24: 24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28.25: 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28.26: 26 Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Deuteronomy 28.27: 27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

Deuteronomy 28.28: 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

Deuteronomy 28.29: 29 You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 28.30: 30 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28.31: 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 28.32: 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

Deuteronomy 28.33: 33 A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

Deuteronomy 28.34: 34 so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

Deuteronomy 28.35: 35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

Deuteronomy 28.36: 36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28.37: 37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.

Deuteronomy 28.38: 38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

Deuteronomy 28.39: 39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28.40: 40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

Deuteronomy 28.41: 41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28.42: 42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

Deuteronomy 28.43: 43 The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28.44: 44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Deuteronomy 28.45: 45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

Deuteronomy 28.46: 46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

Deuteronomy 28.47: 47 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Deuteronomy 28.48: 48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28.49: 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 28.50: 50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.

Deuteronomy 28.51: 51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Deuteronomy 28.52: 52 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28.53: 53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

Deuteronomy 28.54: 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

Deuteronomy 28.55: 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28.56: 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

Deuteronomy 28.57: 57 toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

Deuteronomy 28.58: 58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,

Deuteronomy 28.59: 59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.

Deuteronomy 28.60: 60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.

Deuteronomy 28.61: 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28.62: 62 You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Deuteronomy 28.63: 63 It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.

Deuteronomy 28.64: 64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28.65: 65 Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

Deuteronomy 28.66: 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.

Deuteronomy 28.67: 67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

Deuteronomy 28.68: 68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

Deuteronomy 29.1: 29These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

Deuteronomy 29.3: 3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

Deuteronomy 29.4: 4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Deuteronomy 29.5: 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.

Deuteronomy 29.6: 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 29.7: 7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.

Deuteronomy 29.8: 8 We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

Deuteronomy 29.9: 9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 29.10: 10 All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29.11: 11 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

Deuteronomy 29.12: 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,

Deuteronomy 29.13: 13 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29.14: 14 Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,

Deuteronomy 29.15: 15 but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

Deuteronomy 29.16: 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;

Deuteronomy 29.17: 17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);

Deuteronomy 29.18: 18 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Deuteronomy 29.19: 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

Deuteronomy 29.20: 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

Deuteronomy 29.21: 21 Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

Deuteronomy 29.22: 22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,

Deuteronomy 29.23: 23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Deuteronomy 29.24: 24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

Deuteronomy 29.25: 25 Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 29.26: 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.

Deuteronomy 29.27: 27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.

Deuteronomy 29.28: 28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Deuteronomy 29.29: 29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 30.1: 30It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,

Deuteronomy 30.2: 2 and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 30.3: 3 that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 30.4: 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.

Deuteronomy 30.5: 5 Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.

Deuteronomy 30.6: 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30.7: 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

Deuteronomy 30.8: 8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.

Deuteronomy 30.9: 9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

Deuteronomy 30.10: 10 if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30.11: 11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.

Deuteronomy 30.12: 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”

Deuteronomy 30.13: 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”

Deuteronomy 30.14: 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

Deuteronomy 30.15: 15 Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

Deuteronomy 30.16: 16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30.17: 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

Deuteronomy 30.18: 18 I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30.19: 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

Deuteronomy 30.20: 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 31.2: 2 He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 31.3: 3 Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

Deuteronomy 31.4: 4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 31.5: 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 31.6: 6 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Deuteronomy 31.7: 7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 31.8: 8 Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

Deuteronomy 31.9: 9 Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31.10: 10 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,

Deuteronomy 31.11: 11 when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Deuteronomy 31.12: 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,

Deuteronomy 31.13: 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

Deuteronomy 31.14: 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.”

Deuteronomy 31.15: 15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door.

Deuteronomy 31.16: 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31.17: 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 31.18: 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

Deuteronomy 31.19: 19 “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31.20: 20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

Deuteronomy 31.21: 21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

Deuteronomy 31.22: 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31.23: 23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”

Deuteronomy 31.24: 24 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

Deuteronomy 31.25: 25 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, saying,

Deuteronomy 31.26: 26 “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.

Deuteronomy 31.27: 27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

Deuteronomy 31.28: 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 31.29: 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Deuteronomy 31.30: 30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

Deuteronomy 32.21: 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.

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 32.46: 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 32.49: 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.”

Deuteronomy 33.1: 33This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Deuteronomy 33.9: 9 He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’

Deuteronomy 34.1: 34Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,

Deuteronomy 34.2: 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,

Deuteronomy 34.3: 3 and the south,1 and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

Deuteronomy 34.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”

Deuteronomy 34.5: 5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

Deuteronomy 34.6: 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.

Deuteronomy 34.7: 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

Deuteronomy 34.8: 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

Deuteronomy 34.9: 9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 34.10: 10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

Deuteronomy 34.11: 11 in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

Deuteronomy 34.12: 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

Joshua 1.1: 1Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh,1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,

Joshua 1.2: 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel.

Joshua 1.3: 3 I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.

Joshua 1.4: 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

Joshua 1.5: 5 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Joshua 1.6: 6 “Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Joshua 1.7: 7 Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Joshua 1.8: 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Joshua 1.9: 9 Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God2 is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1.11: 11 “Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.’”

Joshua 1.12: 12 Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,

Joshua 1.13: 13 “Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, ‘Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.

Joshua 1.14: 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

Joshua 1.15: 15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’”

Joshua 1.16: 16 They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

Joshua 1.17: 17 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.

Joshua 1.18: 18 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

Joshua 2.1: 2Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

Joshua 2.2: 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Behold,1 men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

Joshua 2.3: 3 Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”

Joshua 2.4: 4 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.

Joshua 2.5: 5 About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

Joshua 2.6: 6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

Joshua 2.7: 7 The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

Joshua 2.9: 9 She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

Joshua 2.10: 10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

Joshua 2.11: 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

Joshua 2.12: 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

Joshua 2.13: 13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

Joshua 2.14: 14 The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

Joshua 2.15: 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

Joshua 2.16: 16 She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

Joshua 2.17: 17 The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.

Joshua 2.18: 18 Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

Joshua 2.19: 19 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Joshua 2.20: 20 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”

Joshua 2.21: 21 She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.

Joshua 2.22: 22 They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.

Joshua 2.23: 23 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.

Joshua 2.24: 24 They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

Joshua 3.1: 3Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.

Joshua 3.2: 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;

Joshua 3.3: 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.

Joshua 3.4: 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits1 by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”

Joshua 3.5: 5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

Joshua 3.6: 6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

Joshua 3.7: 7 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

Joshua 3.8: 8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”

Joshua 3.9: 9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”

Joshua 3.10: 10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

Joshua 3.11: 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord2 of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

Joshua 3.12: 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

Joshua 3.13: 13 It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”

Joshua 3.14: 14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

Joshua 3.15: 15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

Joshua 3.16: 16 the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.

Joshua 3.17: 17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

Joshua 4.1: 4When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

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 4.16: 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.’”

Joshua 5.1: 5When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

Joshua 5.2: 2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”

Joshua 5.3: 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5.4: 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Joshua 5.5: 5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

Joshua 5.6: 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 5.7: 7 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

Joshua 5.8: 8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

Joshua 5.9: 9 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal1 to this day.

Joshua 5.10: 10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

Joshua 5.11: 11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.

Joshua 5.12: 12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Joshua 5.13: 13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”

Joshua 5.14: 14 He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.”

Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”

Joshua 5.15: 15 The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

Joshua 6.1: 6Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

Joshua 6.2: 2 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

Joshua 6.3: 3 All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

Joshua 6.4: 4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Joshua 6.5: 5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”

Joshua 6.6: 6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”

Joshua 6.7: 7 They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”

Joshua 6.8: 8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.

Joshua 6.9: 9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6.10: 10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”

Joshua 6.11: 11 So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.

Joshua 6.12: 12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.

Joshua 6.13: 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6.14: 14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

Joshua 6.15: 15 On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.

Joshua 6.16: 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

Joshua 6.17: 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

Joshua 6.18: 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.

Joshua 6.19: 19 But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”

Joshua 6.20: 20 So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.

Joshua 6.21: 21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 6.22: 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”

Joshua 6.23: 23 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

Joshua 6.24: 24 They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.

Joshua 6.25: 25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Joshua 6.26: 26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”

Joshua 7.1: 7But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.

Joshua 7.2: 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.”

Joshua 7.3: 3 They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

Joshua 7.4: 4 So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

Joshua 7.5: 5 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

Joshua 7.6: 6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Joshua 7.7: 7 Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Joshua 7.8: 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?

Joshua 7.9: 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

Joshua 7.10: 10 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?

Joshua 7.11: 11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

Joshua 7.12: 12 Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Joshua 7.13: 13 Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”

Joshua 7.14: 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.

Joshua 7.15: 15 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

Joshua 7.16: 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

Joshua 7.17: 17 He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

Joshua 7.18: 18 He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

Joshua 7.19: 19 Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

Joshua 7.20: 20 Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

Joshua 7.21: 21 When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels1 of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Joshua 7.22: 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

Joshua 7.23: 23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

Joshua 7.24: 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Joshua 7.25: 25 Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

Joshua 7.26: 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

Joshua 8.1: 8Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

Joshua 8.2: 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

Joshua 8.3: 3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

Joshua 8.4: 4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Joshua 8.5: 5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

Joshua 8.6: 6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

Joshua 8.7: 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

Joshua 8.8: 8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

Joshua 8.9: 9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

Joshua 8.10: 10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

Joshua 8.11: 11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

Joshua 8.12: 12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Joshua 8.13: 13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

Joshua 8.14: 14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Joshua 8.15: 15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 8.16: 16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8.17: 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

Joshua 8.18: 18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.”

Joshua 8.19: 19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

Joshua 8.20: 20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

Joshua 8.21: 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.

Joshua 8.22: 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

Joshua 8.24: 24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8.25: 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8.26: 26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

Joshua 8.27: 27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.

Joshua 8.28: 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

Joshua 8.29: 29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

Joshua 8.30: 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

Joshua 8.31: 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

Joshua 8.32: 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Joshua 8.33: 33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8.34: 34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Joshua 8.35: 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

Joshua 9.1: 9When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

Joshua 9.2: 2 they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

Joshua 9.3: 3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Joshua 9.4: 4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

Joshua 9.5: 5 and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

Joshua 9.6: 6 They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

Joshua 9.7: 7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”

Joshua 9.9: 9 They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

Joshua 9.10: 10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

Joshua 9.11: 11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

Joshua 9.12: 12 This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

Joshua 9.13: 13 These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”

Joshua 9.14: 14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

Joshua 9.15: 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

Joshua 9.16: 16 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

Joshua 9.17: 17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9.18: 18 The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

Joshua 9.19: 19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

Joshua 9.20: 20 We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

Joshua 9.21: 21 The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.

Joshua 9.22: 22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

Joshua 9.23: 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9.24: 24 They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Joshua 9.25: 25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”

Joshua 9.26: 26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.

Joshua 9.27: 27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.

Joshua 10.1: 10Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,

Joshua 10.2: 2 they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Joshua 10.3: 3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

Joshua 10.4: 4 “Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

Joshua 10.5: 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

Joshua 10.6: 6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”

Joshua 10.7: 7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valor.

Joshua 10.8: 8 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”

Joshua 10.9: 9 Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

Joshua 10.10: 10 Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

Joshua 10.11: 11 As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

Joshua 10.12: 12 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

Joshua 10.13: 13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

Joshua 10.14: 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

Joshua 10.15: 15 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

Joshua 10.16: 16 These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

Joshua 10.17: 17 Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

Joshua 10.18: 18 Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

Joshua 10.19: 19 but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

Joshua 10.20: 20 When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

Joshua 10.21: 21 all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

Joshua 10.22: 22 Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”

Joshua 10.23: 23 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

Joshua 10.24: 24 When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.”

Joshua 10.25: 25 Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

Joshua 10.26: 26 Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

Joshua 10.27: 27 At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

Joshua 10.28: 28 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10.29: 29 Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

Joshua 10.30: 30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10.31: 31 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

Joshua 10.32: 32 Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

Joshua 10.33: 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.

Joshua 10.34: 34 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.

Joshua 10.35: 35 They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

Joshua 10.36: 36 Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.

Joshua 10.37: 37 They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

Joshua 10.38: 38 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

Joshua 10.39: 39 He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

Joshua 10.40: 40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

Joshua 10.41: 41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.

Joshua 10.42: 42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

Joshua 10.43: 43 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

Joshua 11.1: 11When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

Joshua 11.2: 2 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

Joshua 11.3: 3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Joshua 11.4: 4 They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

Joshua 11.5: 5 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

Joshua 11.6: 6 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

Joshua 11.7: 7 So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.

Joshua 11.8: 8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.

Joshua 11.9: 9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

Joshua 11.10: 10 Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

Joshua 11.11: 11 They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

Joshua 11.12: 12 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

Joshua 11.13: 13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

Joshua 11.14: 14 The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.

Joshua 11.15: 15 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

Joshua 11.16: 16 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;

Joshua 11.17: 17 from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.

Joshua 11.19: 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.

Joshua 11.20: 20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Joshua 11.21: 21 Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

Joshua 11.22: 22 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

Joshua 11.23: 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

Joshua 12.1: 12Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

Joshua 12.2: 2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

Joshua 12.3: 3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Joshua 12.4: 4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Joshua 12.5: 5 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Joshua 12.6: 6 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 12.7: 7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

Joshua 12.8: 8 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

Joshua 13.1: 13Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

Joshua 13.2: 2 “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

Joshua 13.3: 3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,

Joshua 13.4: 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;

Joshua 13.5: 5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;

Joshua 13.6: 6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the children of Israel. Just allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

Joshua 13.7: 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Joshua 13.8: 8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:

Joshua 13.9: 9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;

Joshua 13.10: 10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;

Joshua 13.11: 11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;

Joshua 13.12: 12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.

Joshua 13.13: 13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.

Joshua 13.14: 14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

Joshua 13.15: 15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

Joshua 13.16: 16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;

Joshua 13.17: 17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

Joshua 13.21: 21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

Joshua 13.22: 22 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

Joshua 13.23: 23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.

Joshua 13.24: 24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.

Joshua 13.25: 25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;

Joshua 13.26: 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Joshua 13.27: 27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

Joshua 13.28: 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.

Joshua 13.29: 29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

Joshua 13.30: 30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.

Joshua 13.31: 31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.

Joshua 13.32: 32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.

Joshua 13.33: 33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

Joshua 14.1: 14These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

Joshua 14.2: 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

Joshua 14.3: 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

Joshua 14.4: 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

Joshua 14.5: 5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Joshua 14.6: 6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

Joshua 14.7: 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

Joshua 14.8: 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Joshua 14.9: 9 Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’

Joshua 14.10: 10 “Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

Joshua 14.11: 11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

Joshua 14.12: 12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”

Joshua 14.13: 13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

Joshua 14.14: 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.

Joshua 14.15: 15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

Joshua 15.1: 15The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

Joshua 15.2: 2 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;

Joshua 15.3: 3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka;

Joshua 15.4: 4 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.

Joshua 15.5: 5 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.

Joshua 15.6: 6 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

Joshua 15.7: 7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.

Joshua 15.8: 8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.

Joshua 15.9: 9 The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (also called Kiriath Jearim);

Joshua 15.10: 10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;

Joshua 15.11: 11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

Joshua 15.12: 12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.

Joshua 15.13: 13 He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron).

Joshua 15.14: 14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

Joshua 15.15: 15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.

Joshua 15.16: 16 Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”

Joshua 15.17: 17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

Joshua 15.18: 18 When she came, she had him ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?”

Joshua 15.19: 19 She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.”

Joshua 15.20: 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

Joshua 15.21: 21 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

Joshua 15.32: 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.

Joshua 15.36: 36 Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.

Joshua 15.41: 41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

Joshua 15.46: 46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

Joshua 15.47: 47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

Joshua 15.54: 54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

Joshua 15.59: 59 Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

Joshua 15.60: 60 Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Joshua 15.62: 62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

Joshua 15.63: 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 16.1: 16The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

Joshua 16.2: 2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

Joshua 16.3: 3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

Joshua 16.4: 4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

Joshua 16.5: 5 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.

Joshua 16.6: 6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

Joshua 16.7: 7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

Joshua 16.8: 8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

Joshua 16.9: 9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

Joshua 16.10: 10 They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

Joshua 17.1: 17This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Joshua 17.2: 2 So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida. These were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

Joshua 17.3: 3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Joshua 17.4: 4 They came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

Joshua 17.5: 5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

Joshua 17.6: 6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

Joshua 17.7: 7 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

Joshua 17.8: 8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

Joshua 17.9: 9 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.

Joshua 17.10: 10 Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

Joshua 17.11: 11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.

Joshua 17.12: 12 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Joshua 17.13: 13 When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

Joshua 17.14: 14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”

Joshua 17.15: 15 Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

Joshua 17.16: 16 The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

Joshua 17.17: 17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

Joshua 17.18: 18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

Joshua 18.1: 18The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

Joshua 18.2: 2 Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

Joshua 18.3: 3 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Joshua 18.4: 4 Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me.

Joshua 18.5: 5 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.

Joshua 18.6: 6 You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

Joshua 18.7: 7 However, the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”

Joshua 18.8: 8 The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, “Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.”

Joshua 18.9: 9 The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

Joshua 18.10: 10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

Joshua 18.11: 11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

Joshua 18.12: 12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

Joshua 18.13: 13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.

Joshua 18.14: 14 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.

Joshua 18.15: 15 The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

Joshua 18.16: 16 The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.

Joshua 18.17: 17 It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

Joshua 18.18: 18 It passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.

Joshua 18.19: 19 The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.

Joshua 18.20: 20 The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.

Joshua 18.21: 21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

Joshua 18.24: 24 Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

Joshua 18.28: 28 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

Joshua 19.1: 19The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

Joshua 19.8: 8 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

Joshua 19.9: 9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the middle of their inheritance.

Joshua 19.10: 10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.

Joshua 19.11: 11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.

Joshua 19.12: 12 It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.

Joshua 19.13: 13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.

Joshua 19.14: 14 The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;

Joshua 19.15: 15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.16: 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.17: 17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.

Joshua 19.22: 22 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.23: 23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.24: 24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

Joshua 19.26: 26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.

Joshua 19.27: 27 It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,

Joshua 19.29: 29 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;

Joshua 19.30: 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.31: 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.32: 32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

Joshua 19.33: 33 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.

Joshua 19.34: 34 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

Joshua 19.35: 35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

Joshua 19.38: 38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.39: 39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.40: 40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

Joshua 19.47: 47 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.

Joshua 19.48: 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Joshua 19.49: 49 So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.

Joshua 19.50: 50 According to Yahweh’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.

Joshua 19.51: 51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

Joshua 20.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

Joshua 20.3: 3 that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20.4: 4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

Joshua 20.5: 5 If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.

Joshua 20.6: 6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”

Joshua 20.7: 7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 20.8: 8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 20.9: 9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.

Joshua 21.1: 21Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.

Joshua 21.2: 2 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”

Joshua 21.3: 3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.

Joshua 21.4: 4 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.

Joshua 21.5: 5 The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 21.6: 6 The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Joshua 21.7: 7 The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.

Joshua 21.8: 8 The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.

Joshua 21.9: 9 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:

Joshua 21.10: 10 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

Joshua 21.11: 11 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.

Joshua 21.12: 12 But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Joshua 21.13: 13 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.14: 14 Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.16: 16 Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.

Joshua 21.17: 17 Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.18: 18 Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.19: 19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

Joshua 21.20: 20 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Joshua 21.21: 21 They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.22: 22 Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.23: 23 Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.24: 24 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.25: 25 Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities.

Joshua 21.26: 26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their pasture lands.

Joshua 21.27: 27 They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities.

Joshua 21.28: 28 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.29: 29 Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.30: 30 Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.31: 31 Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.32: 32 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities.

Joshua 21.33: 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

Joshua 21.34: 34 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.35: 35 Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.36: 36 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.37: 37 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.

Joshua 21.38: 38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21.39: 39 Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.

Joshua 21.40: 40 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.

Joshua 21.41: 41 All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

Joshua 21.42: 42 Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.

Joshua 21.43: 43 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.

Joshua 21.44: 44 Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.

Joshua 21.45: 45 Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.

Joshua 22.1: 22Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

Joshua 22.2: 2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

Joshua 22.3: 3 You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.

Joshua 22.4: 4 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.

Joshua 22.5: 5 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Joshua 22.6: 6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

Joshua 22.7: 7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

Joshua 22.8: 8 and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”

Joshua 22.9: 9 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

Joshua 22.10: 10 When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

Joshua 22.11: 11 The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar along the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.”

Joshua 22.12: 12 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

Joshua 22.13: 13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.

Joshua 22.14: 14 With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.

Joshua 22.15: 15 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

Joshua 22.16: 16 “The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

Joshua 22.17: 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

Joshua 22.18: 18 that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

Joshua 22.19: 19 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.

Joshua 22.20: 20 Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”

Joshua 22.21: 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

Joshua 22.22: 22 “The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Joshua 22.23: 23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.

Joshua 22.24: 24 “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

Joshua 22.25: 25 For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.

Joshua 22.26: 26 “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

Joshua 22.27: 27 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’

Joshua 22.28: 28 “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’

Joshua 22.29: 29 “Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”

Joshua 22.30: 30 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

Joshua 22.31: 31 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s hand.”

Joshua 22.32: 32 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

Joshua 22.33: 33 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.

Joshua 22.34: 34 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”

Joshua 23.1: 23After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

Joshua 23.2: 2 Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

Joshua 23.3: 3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

Joshua 23.4: 4 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

Joshua 23.5: 5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

Joshua 23.6: 6 “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

Joshua 23.7: 7 that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

Joshua 23.9: 9 “For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

Joshua 23.10: 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

Joshua 23.11: 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

Joshua 23.12: 12 “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

Joshua 23.13: 13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Joshua 23.14: 14 “Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

Joshua 23.15: 15 It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,

Joshua 23.16: 16 when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”

Joshua 24.1: 24Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua 24.2: 2 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

Joshua 24.3: 3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring,1 and gave him Isaac.

Joshua 24.4: 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Joshua 24.5: 5 “‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

Joshua 24.6: 6 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.

Joshua 24.7: 7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.

Joshua 24.8: 8 “‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.

Joshua 24.9: 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

Joshua 24.10: 10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

Joshua 24.11: 11 “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

Joshua 24.12: 12 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

Joshua 24.13: 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

Joshua 24.14: 14 “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

Joshua 24.15: 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Joshua 24.16: 16 The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

Joshua 24.17: 17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.

Joshua 24.18: 18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

Joshua 24.19: 19 Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Joshua 24.20: 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

Joshua 24.22: 22 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.”

Joshua 24.23: 23 “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

Joshua 24.24: 24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

Joshua 24.25: 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Joshua 24.26: 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

Joshua 24.27: 27 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

Joshua 24.29: 29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

Joshua 24.30: 30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

Joshua 24.31: 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

Joshua 24.32: 32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.2 They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Joshua 24.33: 33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

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.

Judges 2.1: 2Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.

Judges 2.2: 2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?

Judges 2.3: 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”

Judges 2.4: 4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.

Judges 2.5: 5 They called the name of that place Bochim,1 and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.

Judges 2.6: 6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.

Judges 2.7: 7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

Judges 2.8: 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

Judges 2.9: 9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

Judges 2.10: 10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Judges 2.11: 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.

Judges 2.12: 12 They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

Judges 2.14: 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

Judges 2.15: 15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.

Judges 2.16: 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

Judges 2.17: 17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

Judges 2.18: 18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

Judges 2.19: 19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

Judges 2.20: 20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,

Judges 2.21: 21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;

Judges 2.22: 22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

Judges 2.23: 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.

Judges 3.1: 3Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3.2: 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

Judges 3.3: 3 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

Judges 3.4: 4 They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

Judges 3.5: 5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Judges 3.6: 6 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Judges 3.7: 7 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

Judges 3.8: 8 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.

Judges 3.9: 9 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

Judges 3.10: 10 Yahweh’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.

Judges 3.11: 11 The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Judges 3.12: 12 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Judges 3.13: 13 He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

Judges 3.14: 14 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 3.15: 15 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 3.16: 16 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit1 in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.

Judges 3.17: 17 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

Judges 3.18: 18 When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

Judges 3.19: 19 But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.”

Judges 3.20: 20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

Judges 3.21: 21 Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.

Judges 3.22: 22 The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

Judges 3.23: 23 Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

Judges 3.24: 24 After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet2 in the upper room.”

Judges 3.25: 25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.

Judges 3.26: 26 Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.

Judges 3.27: 27 When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.

Judges 3.28: 28 He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.

Judges 3.29: 29 They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.

Judges 3.30: 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.

Judges 3.31: 31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.

Judges 4.1: 4The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.

Judges 4.2: 2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

Judges 4.3: 3 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

Judges 4.4: 4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.

Judges 4.5: 5 She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Judges 4.6: 6 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

Judges 4.7: 7 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”

Judges 4.8: 8 Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

Judges 4.9: 9 She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Judges 4.10: 10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.

Judges 4.11: 11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

Judges 4.12: 12 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.

Judges 4.13: 13 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.

Judges 4.14: 14 Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

Judges 4.15: 15 Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.

Judges 4.16: 16 But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.

Judges 4.17: 17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judges 4.18: 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

Judges 4.19: 19 He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.”

Judges 4.20: 20 He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”

Judges 4.21: 21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.

Judges 4.22: 22 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.

Judges 4.23: 23 So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.

Judges 4.24: 24 The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

Judges 5.1: 5Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

Judges 6.1: 6The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Judges 6.2: 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

Judges 6.3: 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

Judges 6.4: 4 They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

Judges 6.5: 5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

Judges 6.6: 6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.

Judges 6.8: 8 Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage.

Judges 6.9: 9 I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land.

Judges 6.10: 10 I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’”

Judges 6.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6.12: 12 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

Judges 6.13: 13 Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Judges 6.14: 14 Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

Judges 6.15: 15 He said to him, “O Lord,1 how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

Judges 6.16: 16 Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

Judges 6.17: 17 He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

Judges 6.18: 18 Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.”

Judges 6.19: 19 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah 2 of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

Judges 6.20: 20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.”

Judges 6.21: 21 Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.

Judges 6.22: 22 Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

Judges 6.23: 23 Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”

Judges 6.24: 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.”3 To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6.25: 25 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

Judges 6.26: 26 Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

Judges 6.27: 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

Judges 6.28: 28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”

Judges 6.30: 30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”

Judges 6.31: 31 Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”

Judges 6.32: 32 Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal,4 saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”

Judges 6.33: 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

Judges 6.34: 34 But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.

Judges 6.35: 35 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

Judges 6.36: 36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

Judges 6.37: 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

Judges 6.38: 38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

Judges 6.39: 39 Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

Judges 6.40: 40 God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Judges 7.1: 7Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

Judges 7.2: 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

Judges 7.3: 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

Judges 7.4: 4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”

Judges 7.5: 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”

Judges 7.6: 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.

Judges 7.7: 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”

Judges 7.8: 8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

Judges 7.9: 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.

Judges 7.10: 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.

Judges 7.11: 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

Judges 7.12: 12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

Judges 7.13: 13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”

Judges 7.14: 14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”

Judges 7.15: 15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”

Judges 7.16: 16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

Judges 7.17: 17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.

Judges 7.18: 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”

Judges 7.19: 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Judges 7.20: 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”

Judges 7.21: 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.

Judges 7.22: 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

Judges 7.23: 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.

Judges 7.24: 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.

Judges 7.25: 25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

Judges 8.1: 8The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.

Judges 8.2: 2 He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Judges 8.3: 3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

Judges 8.4: 4 Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

Judges 8.5: 5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Judges 8.6: 6 The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”

Judges 8.7: 7 Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

Judges 8.8: 8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

Judges 8.9: 9 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

Judges 8.10: 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

Judges 8.11: 11 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.

Judges 8.12: 12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.

Judges 8.13: 13 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

Judges 8.14: 14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

Judges 8.15: 15 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”

Judges 8.16: 16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Judges 8.17: 17 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

Judges 8.18: 18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?”

They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”

Judges 8.19: 19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”

Judges 8.20: 20 He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.

Judges 8.21: 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.

Judges 8.22: 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”

Judges 8.23: 23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

Judges 8.24: 24 Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Judges 8.25: 25 They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.

Judges 8.26: 26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels1 of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

Judges 8.27: 27 Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

Judges 8.28: 28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

Judges 8.30: 30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Judges 8.31: 31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

Judges 8.32: 32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8.33: 33 As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

Judges 8.34: 34 The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;

Judges 8.35: 35 neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.

Judges 9.1: 9Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

Judges 9.2: 2 “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

Judges 9.3: 3 His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”

Judges 9.4: 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

Judges 9.5: 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

Judges 9.6: 6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

Judges 9.7: 7 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Judges 9.8: 8 The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Judges 9.9: 9 “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

Judges 9.10: 10 “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

Judges 9.11: 11 “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

Judges 9.13: 13 “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

Judges 9.14: 14 “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

Judges 9.15: 15 “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Judges 9.16: 16 “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands

Judges 9.17: 17 (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

Judges 9.18: 18 and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

Judges 9.19: 19 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;

Judges 9.20: 20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

Judges 9.21: 21 Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer1 and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

Judges 9.23: 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Judges 9.24: 24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Judges 9.25: 25 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.

Judges 9.26: 26 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

Judges 9.27: 27 They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 9.28: 28 Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

Judges 9.29: 29 I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”

Judges 9.30: 30 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

Judges 9.31: 31 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.

Judges 9.32: 32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Judges 9.33: 33 It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

Judges 9.34: 34 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

Judges 9.35: 35 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

Judges 9.36: 36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.”

Zebul said to him, “You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men.”

Judges 9.37: 37 Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”

Judges 9.38: 38 Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

Judges 9.39: 39 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

Judges 9.40: 40 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.

Judges 9.41: 41 Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

Judges 9.42: 42 On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

Judges 9.43: 43 He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.

Judges 9.44: 44 Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.

Judges 9.45: 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.

Judges 9.46: 46 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

Judges 9.47: 47 Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

Judges 9.48: 48 Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”

Judges 9.49: 49 All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

Judges 9.50: 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

Judges 9.51: 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 9.52: 52 Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

Judges 9.53: 53 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

Judges 9.54: 54 Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”

Judges 9.55: 55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.

Judges 9.56: 56 Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

Judges 9.57: 57 and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

Judges 10.1: 10After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 10.2: 2 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

Judges 10.3: 3 After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.

Judges 10.4: 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

Judges 10.6: 6 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.

Judges 10.7: 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

Judges 10.8: 8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Judges 10.9: 9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.

Judges 10.10: 10 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”

Judges 10.11: 11 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

Judges 10.12: 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

Judges 10.13: 13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

Judges 10.14: 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

Judges 10.15: 15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”

Judges 10.16: 16 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Judges 10.17: 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.

Judges 10.18: 18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

Judges 11.1: 11Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

Judges 11.2: 2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

Judges 11.3: 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

Judges 11.5: 5 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

Judges 11.6: 6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”

Judges 11.7: 7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

Judges 11.8: 8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

Judges 11.9: 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will I be your head?”

Judges 11.10: 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”

Judges 11.11: 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

Judges 11.12: 12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

Judges 11.13: 13 The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

Judges 11.14: 14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;

Judges 11.15: 15 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;

Judges 11.16: 16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,

Judges 11.17: 17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.

Judges 11.18: 18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

Judges 11.19: 19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’

Judges 11.20: 20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Judges 11.21: 21 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

Judges 11.22: 22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

Judges 11.23: 23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

Judges 11.24: 24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

Judges 11.25: 25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

Judges 11.26: 26 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?

Judges 11.27: 27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

Judges 11.28: 28 However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Judges 11.29: 29 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

Judges 11.30: 30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Judges 11.31: 31 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”

Judges 11.32: 32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

Judges 11.33: 33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

Judges 11.34: 34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

Judges 11.35: 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

Judges 11.36: 36 She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”

Judges 11.37: 37 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”

Judges 11.38: 38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

Judges 11.39: 39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel

Judges 11.40: 40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Judges 12.1: 12The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

Judges 12.2: 2 Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.

Judges 12.3: 3 When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

Judges 12.4: 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

Judges 12.5: 5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”

Judges 12.6: 6 then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

Judges 12.7: 7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.

Judges 12.9: 9 He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

Judges 12.11: 11 After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

Judges 12.12: 12 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

Judges 12.13: 13 After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

Judges 12.14: 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

Judges 12.15: 15 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

Judges 13.1: 13The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 13.2: 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

Judges 13.3: 3 Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

Judges 13.4: 4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;

Judges 13.5: 5 for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Judges 13.6: 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;

Judges 13.7: 7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Judges 13.8: 8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”

Judges 13.9: 9 God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.

Judges 13.10: 10 The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”

Judges 13.11: 11 Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”

Judges 13.12: 12 Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”

Judges 13.13: 13 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

Judges 13.14: 14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”

Judges 13.15: 15 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”

Judges 13.16: 16 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.

Judges 13.17: 17 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”

Judges 13.18: 18 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible1?”

Judges 13.19: 19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

Judges 13.20: 20 For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

Judges 13.21: 21 But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.

Judges 13.22: 22 Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”

Judges 13.23: 23 But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

Judges 13.24: 24 The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

Judges 13.25: 25 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 14.1: 14Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

Judges 14.2: 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

Judges 14.3: 3 Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”

Judges 14.4: 4 But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

Judges 14.5: 5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.

Judges 14.6: 6 Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.

Judges 14.7: 7 He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

Judges 14.8: 8 After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

Judges 14.9: 9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.

Judges 14.10: 10 His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.

Judges 14.11: 11 When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Judges 14.12: 12 Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

Judges 14.13: 13 but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”

Judges 14.15: 15 On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

Judges 14.16: 16 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.”

He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

Judges 14.17: 17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Judges 14.18: 18 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?”

Judges 14.19: 19 Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.

Judges 14.20: 20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

Judges 15.1: 15But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.”

Judges 15.2: 2 Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”

Judges 15.3: 3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”

Judges 15.4: 4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.

Judges 15.5: 5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

Judges 15.7: 7 Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

Judges 15.8: 8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

Judges 15.9: 9 Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”

Judges 15.11: 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?”

Judges 15.12: 12 They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.”

Judges 15.13: 13 They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

Judges 15.14: 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.

Judges 15.15: 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

Judges 15.16: 16 Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”

Judges 15.17: 17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.1

Judges 15.18: 18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

Judges 15.19: 19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

Judges 16.1: 16Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

Judges 16.2: 2 The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

Judges 16.3: 3 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

Judges 16.4: 4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Judges 16.5: 5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

Judges 16.6: 6 Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

Judges 16.7: 7 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

Judges 16.8: 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Judges 16.9: 9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

Judges 16.10: 10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

Judges 16.11: 11 He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

Judges 16.12: 12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

Judges 16.13: 13 Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”

He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”

Judges 16.14: 14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.

Judges 16.15: 15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

Judges 16.16: 16 When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

Judges 16.17: 17 He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

Judges 16.18: 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

Judges 16.19: 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Judges 16.21: 21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Judges 16.22: 22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

Judges 16.23: 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”

Judges 16.24: 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

Judges 16.25: 25 When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

Judges 16.26: 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”

Judges 16.27: 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

Judges 16.28: 28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Judges 16.29: 29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

Judges 16.30: 30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

Judges 16.31: 31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

Judges 17.1: 17There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges 17.2: 2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.”

Judges 17.3: 3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

Judges 17.4: 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17.5: 5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim,1 and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 17.6: 6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Judges 17.7: 7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

Judges 17.8: 8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”

Judges 17.10: 10 Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

Judges 17.11: 11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

Judges 17.12: 12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17.13: 13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”

Judges 18.1: 18In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 18.2: 2 The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!”

They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

Judges 18.3: 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”

Judges 18.4: 4 He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

Judges 18.5: 5 They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”

Judges 18.6: 6 The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”

Judges 18.7: 7 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.

Judges 18.8: 8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”

Judges 18.9: 9 They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

Judges 18.10: 10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

Judges 18.11: 11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

Judges 18.12: 12 They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.

Judges 18.13: 13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

Judges 18.14: 14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim,1 and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

Judges 18.15: 15 They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

Judges 18.16: 16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

Judges 18.17: 17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

Judges 18.18: 18 When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18.19: 19 They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Judges 18.20: 20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

Judges 18.21: 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.

Judges 18.22: 22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.

Judges 18.23: 23 As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”

Judges 18.24: 24 He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”

Judges 18.25: 25 The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”

Judges 18.26: 26 The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

Judges 18.27: 27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.

Judges 18.28: 28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.

Judges 18.29: 29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.

Judges 18.30: 30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

Judges 18.31: 31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.

Judges 19.1: 19In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Judges 19.2: 2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.

Judges 19.3: 3 Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

Judges 19.4: 4 His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.

Judges 19.5: 5 On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”

Judges 19.6: 6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Judges 19.7: 7 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.

Judges 19.8: 8 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines;” and they both ate.

Judges 19.9: 9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”

Judges 19.10: 10 But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.

Judges 19.11: 11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it.”

Judges 19.12: 12 His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”

Judges 19.13: 13 He said to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”

Judges 19.14: 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

Judges 19.15: 15 They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.

Judges 19.16: 16 Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Judges 19.17: 17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”

Judges 19.18: 18 He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

Judges 19.19: 19 Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

Judges 19.20: 20 The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”

Judges 19.21: 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

Judges 19.22: 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”

Judges 19.23: 23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.

Judges 19.24: 24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”

Judges 19.25: 25 But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go.

Judges 19.26: 26 Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.

Judges 19.27: 27 Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

Judges 19.28: 28 He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

Judges 19.29: 29 When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

Judges 19.30: 30 It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”

Judges 20.1: 20Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.

Judges 20.2: 2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

Judges 20.3: 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”

Judges 20.4: 4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.

Judges 20.5: 5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.

Judges 20.6: 6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Judges 20.7: 7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”

Judges 20.8: 8 All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

Judges 20.9: 9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;

Judges 20.10: 10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”

Judges 20.11: 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

Judges 20.12: 12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened among you?

Judges 20.13: 13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.”

But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

Judges 20.14: 14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Judges 20.15: 15 The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men.

Judges 20.16: 16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

Judges 20.17: 17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.

Judges 20.18: 18 The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?”

Judges 20.19: 19 The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.

Judges 20.20: 20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

Judges 20.21: 21 The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.

Judges 20.22: 22 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.

Judges 20.23: 23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”

Judges 20.24: 24 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

Judges 20.25: 25 Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

Judges 20.26: 26 Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

Judges 20.27: 27 The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

Judges 20.28: 28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”

Judges 20.30: 30 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

Judges 20.31: 31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

Judges 20.32: 32 The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”

Judges 20.33: 33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

Judges 20.34: 34 Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

Judges 20.35: 35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.

Judges 20.36: 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

Judges 20.37: 37 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

Judges 20.38: 38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

Judges 20.39: 39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”

Judges 20.40: 40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.

Judges 20.41: 41 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.

Judges 20.42: 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.

Judges 20.43: 43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.

Judges 20.44: 44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.

Judges 20.45: 45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.

Judges 20.46: 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.

Judges 20.47: 47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.

Judges 20.48: 48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.

Judges 21.1: 21Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”

Judges 21.2: 2 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

Judges 21.3: 3 They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”

Judges 21.4: 4 On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Judges 21.5: 5 The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

Judges 21.6: 6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.

Judges 21.7: 7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

Judges 21.8: 8 They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.

Judges 21.9: 9 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

Judges 21.10: 10 The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

Judges 21.11: 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”

Judges 21.12: 12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21.13: 13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

Judges 21.14: 14 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.

Judges 21.15: 15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Judges 21.16: 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

Judges 21.17: 17 They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

Judges 21.18: 18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”

Judges 21.19: 19 They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”

Judges 21.20: 20 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

Judges 21.21: 21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Judges 21.22: 22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”

Judges 21.23: 23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

Judges 21.24: 24 The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.

Judges 21.25: 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Ruth 1.1: 1In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

Ruth 1.2: 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there.

Ruth 1.3: 3 Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

Ruth 1.4: 4 They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Ruth 1.5: 5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Ruth 1.6: 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh 1 had visited his people in giving them bread.

Ruth 1.7: 7 She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

Ruth 1.8: 8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Ruth 1.9: 9 May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.”

Ruth 1.10: 10 They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”

Ruth 1.11: 11 Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Ruth 1.12: 12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,

Ruth 1.13: 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

Ruth 1.14: 14 They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Ruth 1.15: 15 She said, “Behold,2 your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Ruth 1.16: 16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God3 my God.

Ruth 1.17: 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Ruth 1.18: 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Ruth 1.19: 19 So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

Ruth 1.20: 20 She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.4 Call me Mara,5 for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Ruth 1.21: 21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Ruth 1.22: 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Ruth 2.1: 2Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

Ruth 2.2: 2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.”

Ruth 2.3: 3 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

Ruth 2.4: 4 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.”

Ruth 2.5: 5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”

Ruth 2.6: 6 The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

Ruth 2.7: 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”

Ruth 2.8: 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

Ruth 2.9: 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

Ruth 2.10: 10 Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

Ruth 2.11: 11 Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

Ruth 2.12: 12 May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Ruth 2.13: 13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

Ruth 2.14: 14 At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.”

She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.

Ruth 2.15: 15 When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

Ruth 2.16: 16 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

Ruth 2.17: 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah1 of barley.

Ruth 2.18: 18 She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.

Ruth 2.19: 19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.”

She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

Ruth 2.20: 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

Ruth 2.21: 21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”

Ruth 2.22: 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”

Ruth 2.23: 23 So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth 3.1: 3Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Ruth 3.2: 2 Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.

Ruth 3.3: 3 Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Ruth 3.4: 4 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”

Ruth 3.6: 6 She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

Ruth 3.7: 7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

Ruth 3.8: 8 At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

Ruth 3.10: 10 He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Ruth 3.11: 11 Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Ruth 3.12: 12 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Ruth 3.13: 13 Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

Ruth 3.14: 14 She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

Ruth 3.15: 15 He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.

Ruth 3.16: 16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?”

Ruth 3.17: 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”

Ruth 3.18: 18 Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today.”

Ruth 4.1: 4Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Ruth 4.2: 2 Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

Ruth 4.3: 3 He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

Ruth 4.4: 4 I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”

Ruth 4.5: 5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

Ruth 4.6: 6 The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

Ruth 4.7: 7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.

Ruth 4.8: 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.

Ruth 4.9: 9 Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

Ruth 4.10: 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

Ruth 4.11: 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Ruth 4.12: 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring1 which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”

Ruth 4.13: 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

Ruth 4.14: 14 The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Ruth 4.15: 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Ruth 4.16: 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.

Ruth 4.17: 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4.18: 18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,

Ruth 4.19: 19 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,

Ruth 4.20: 20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,

Ruth 4.21: 21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,

Ruth 4.22: 22 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

1 Samuel 1.1: 1Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 1.2: 2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

1 Samuel 1.3: 3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh1 of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

1 Samuel 1.4: 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

1 Samuel 1.5: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1.6: 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1.7: 7 So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

1 Samuel 1.8: 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

1 Samuel 1.9: 9 So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

1 Samuel 1.10: 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

1 Samuel 1.11: 11 She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

1 Samuel 1.13: 13 Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

1 Samuel 1.14: 14 Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

1 Samuel 1.15: 15 Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

1 Samuel 1.16: 16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

1 Samuel 1.17: 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God2 of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

1 Samuel 1.18: 18 She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

1 Samuel 1.19: 19 They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

1 Samuel 1.20: 20 When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,3 saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

1 Samuel 1.21: 21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

1 Samuel 1.22: 22 But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

1 Samuel 1.23: 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.”

1 Samuel 1.24: 24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah4 of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

1 Samuel 1.26: 26 She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 1.27: 27 I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

1 Samuel 1.28: 28 Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

1 Samuel 2.11: 11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2.12: 12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

1 Samuel 2.13: 13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

1 Samuel 2.14: 14 and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 2.15: 15 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

1 Samuel 2.16: 16 If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

1 Samuel 2.17: 17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

1 Samuel 2.18: 18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2.19: 19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

1 Samuel 2.20: 20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring2 from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.

1 Samuel 2.21: 21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

1 Samuel 2.22: 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

1 Samuel 2.23: 23 He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

1 Samuel 2.24: 24 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

1 Samuel 2.25: 25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

1 Samuel 2.26: 26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

1 Samuel 2.27: 27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

1 Samuel 2.28: 28 Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

1 Samuel 2.29: 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

1 Samuel 2.30: 30 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

1 Samuel 2.31: 31 Behold,3 the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

1 Samuel 2.32: 32 You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.

1 Samuel 2.33: 33 The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes4 and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

1 Samuel 2.34: 34 This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

1 Samuel 2.35: 35 I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

1 Samuel 2.36: 36 It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

1 Samuel 3.1: 3The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.

1 Samuel 3.2: 2 At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

1 Samuel 3.3: 3 and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,

1 Samuel 3.7: 7 Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.

1 Samuel 3.8: 8 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.”

1 Samuel 3.9: 9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

1 Samuel 3.10: 10 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”

1 Samuel 3.11: 11 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

1 Samuel 3.12: 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

1 Samuel 3.13: 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

1 Samuel 3.14: 14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

1 Samuel 3.15: 15 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.

1 Samuel 3.17: 17 He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.”

1 Samuel 3.19: 19 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

1 Samuel 3.20: 20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

1 Samuel 3.21: 21 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by Yahweh’s word.

Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

1 Samuel 4.2: 2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

1 Samuel 4.3: 3 When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”

1 Samuel 4.4: 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 4.5: 5 When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

1 Samuel 4.6: 6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.

1 Samuel 4.7: 7 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.

1 Samuel 4.8: 8 Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

1 Samuel 4.9: 9 Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

1 Samuel 4.10: 10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.

1 Samuel 4.11: 11 God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

1 Samuel 4.12: 12 A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.

1 Samuel 4.13: 13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

1 Samuel 4.14: 14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?”

1 Samuel 4.15: 15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

1 Samuel 4.16: 16 The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.”

1 Samuel 4.17: 17 He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

1 Samuel 4.18: 18 When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

1 Samuel 4.19: 19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.

1 Samuel 4.20: 20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.

1 Samuel 4.21: 21 She named the child Ichabod,1 saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

1 Samuel 4.22: 22 She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”

1 Samuel 5.1: 5Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5.2: 2 The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

1 Samuel 5.3: 3 When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon and set him in his place again.

1 Samuel 5.4: 4 When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.

1 Samuel 5.5: 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

1 Samuel 5.6: 6 But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

1 Samuel 5.7: 7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god.”

1 Samuel 5.8: 8 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?”

They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there.

1 Samuel 5.9: 9 It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.

As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people.”

1 Samuel 5.11: 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

1 Samuel 5.12: 12 The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

1 Samuel 6.1: 6Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

1 Samuel 6.2: 2 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with Yahweh’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.”

1 Samuel 6.3: 3 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.”

1 Samuel 6.4: 4 Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?”

They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

1 Samuel 6.5: 5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

1 Samuel 6.6: 6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

1 Samuel 6.7: 7 “Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

1 Samuel 6.8: 8 and take Yahweh’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.

1 Samuel 6.9: 9 Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”

1 Samuel 6.10: 10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

1 Samuel 6.11: 11 They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.

1 Samuel 6.12: 12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 6.13: 13 The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

1 Samuel 6.14: 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 6.15: 15 The Levites took down Yahweh’s ark and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 6.16: 16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

1 Samuel 6.17: 17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

1 Samuel 6.18: 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 6.19: 19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 6.20: 20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”

1 Samuel 6.21: 21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”

1 Samuel 7.1: 7The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep Yahweh’s ark.

1 Samuel 7.2: 2 From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long; for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.

1 Samuel 7.3: 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 7.4: 4 Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.

1 Samuel 7.5: 5 Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”

1 Samuel 7.6: 6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

1 Samuel 7.7: 7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 7.8: 8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 7.9: 9 Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.

1 Samuel 7.10: 10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.

1 Samuel 7.11: 11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.

1 Samuel 7.12: 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer,1 saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

1 Samuel 7.13: 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

1 Samuel 7.14: 14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

1 Samuel 7.16: 16 He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

1 Samuel 7.17: 17 His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

1 Samuel 8.2: 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

1 Samuel 8.3: 3 His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 8.4: 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.

1 Samuel 8.5: 5 They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

1 Samuel 8.6: 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.”

1 Samuel 8.7: 7 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

1 Samuel 8.8: 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

1 Samuel 8.9: 9 Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”

1 Samuel 8.10: 10 Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.

1 Samuel 8.11: 11 He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

1 Samuel 8.12: 12 He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8.13: 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

1 Samuel 8.14: 14 He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 8.15: 15 He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.

1 Samuel 8.16: 16 He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.

1 Samuel 8.17: 17 He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

1 Samuel 8.18: 18 You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

1 Samuel 8.19: 19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

1 Samuel 8.20: 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

1 Samuel 8.21: 21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

1 Samuel 8.22: 22 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.”

1 Samuel 9.1: 9Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.

1 Samuel 9.2: 2 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.

1 Samuel 9.3: 3 The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys.”

1 Samuel 9.4: 4 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them.

1 Samuel 9.5: 5 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for us.”

1 Samuel 9.6: 6 The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”

1 Samuel 9.7: 7 Then Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

1 Samuel 9.8: 8 The servant answered Saul again, and said, “Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel1 of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.”

1 Samuel 9.9: 9 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

1 Samuel 9.10: 10 Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come! Let’s go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.

1 Samuel 9.11: 11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”

1 Samuel 9.12: 12 They answered them, and said, “He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.

1 Samuel 9.13: 13 As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find him.”

1 Samuel 9.14: 14 They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

1 Samuel 9.15: 15 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

1 Samuel 9.16: 16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

1 Samuel 9.17: 17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”

1 Samuel 9.18: 18 Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”

1 Samuel 9.19: 19 Samuel answered Saul, and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.

1 Samuel 9.20: 20 As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them; for they have been found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father’s house?”

1 Samuel 9.21: 21 Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?”

1 Samuel 9.22: 22 Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.

1 Samuel 9.23: 23 Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’”

1 Samuel 9.24: 24 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 9.25: 25 When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

1 Samuel 9.26: 26 They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together.

1 Samuel 9.27: 27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” He went ahead, then Samuel said, “But stand still first, that I may cause you to hear God’s message.”

1 Samuel 10.1: 10Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

1 Samuel 10.2: 2 When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’

1 Samuel 10.3: 3 “Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine.

1 Samuel 10.4: 4 They will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand.

1 Samuel 10.5: 5 “After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 10.6: 6 Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.

1 Samuel 10.7: 7 Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you.

1 Samuel 10.8: 8 “Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you, and show you what you are to do.”

1 Samuel 10.9: 9 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.

1 Samuel 10.10: 10 When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.

1 Samuel 10.11: 11 When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, “What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

1 Samuel 10.12: 12 One of the same place answered, “Who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

1 Samuel 10.14: 14 Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?”

He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.”

1 Samuel 10.15: 15 Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”

1 Samuel 10.16: 16 Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him.

1 Samuel 10.18: 18 and he said to the children of Israel, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’

1 Samuel 10.19: 19 But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”

1 Samuel 10.20: 20 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.

1 Samuel 10.21: 21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

1 Samuel 10.22: 22 Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, “Is there yet a man to come here?”

1 Samuel 10.23: 23 They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

1 Samuel 10.24: 24 Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?”

1 Samuel 10.25: 25 Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

1 Samuel 10.26: 26 Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10.27: 27 But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

1 Samuel 11.1: 11Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

1 Samuel 11.2: 2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”

1 Samuel 11.3: 3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”

1 Samuel 11.4: 4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

1 Samuel 11.5: 5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

1 Samuel 11.6: 6 God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.

1 Samuel 11.7: 7 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

1 Samuel 11.8: 8 He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

1 Samuel 11.9: 9 They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

1 Samuel 11.10: 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”

1 Samuel 11.11: 11 On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

1 Samuel 11.12: 12 The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

1 Samuel 11.13: 13 Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

1 Samuel 11.14: 14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”

1 Samuel 11.15: 15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

1 Samuel 12.1: 12Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

1 Samuel 12.2: 2 Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

1 Samuel 12.3: 3 Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

1 Samuel 12.4: 4 They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

1 Samuel 12.5: 5 He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.”

1 Samuel 12.6: 6 Samuel said to the people, “It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 12.7: 7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.

1 Samuel 12.8: 8 “When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

1 Samuel 12.9: 9 “But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 12.10: 10 They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

1 Samuel 12.11: 11 Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.

1 Samuel 12.12: 12 “When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us;’ when Yahweh your God was your king.

1 Samuel 12.13: 13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for. Behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

1 Samuel 12.14: 14 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

1 Samuel 12.15: 15 But if you will not listen to Yahweh’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then Yahweh’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers.

1 Samuel 12.16: 16 “Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.

1 Samuel 12.17: 17 Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”

1 Samuel 12.18: 18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

1 Samuel 12.19: 19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

1 Samuel 12.20: 20 Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

1 Samuel 12.21: 21 Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

1 Samuel 12.22: 22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

1 Samuel 12.23: 23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

1 Samuel 12.24: 24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

1 Samuel 12.25: 25 But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”

1 Samuel 13.1: 13Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.1

1 Samuel 13.2: 2 Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.

1 Samuel 13.3: 3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

1 Samuel 13.4: 4 All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

1 Samuel 13.5: 5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

1 Samuel 13.6: 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

1 Samuel 13.7: 7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

1 Samuel 13.8: 8 He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

1 Samuel 13.9: 9 Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.

1 Samuel 13.10: 10 It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.

Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

1 Samuel 13.12: 12 therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”

1 Samuel 13.13: 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

1 Samuel 13.14: 14 But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

1 Samuel 13.15: 15 Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 13.16: 16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

1 Samuel 13.17: 17 The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;

1 Samuel 13.18: 18 another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

1 Samuel 13.19: 19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;

1 Samuel 13.20: 20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.

1 Samuel 13.21: 21 The price was one payim2 each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.

1 Samuel 13.22: 22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

1 Samuel 13.23: 23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

1 Samuel 14.1: 14Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.

1 Samuel 14.2: 2 Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;

1 Samuel 14.3: 3 including Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

1 Samuel 14.4: 4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 14.5: 5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

1 Samuel 14.6: 6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”

1 Samuel 14.7: 7 His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart.”

1 Samuel 14.8: 8 Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.

1 Samuel 14.9: 9 If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

1 Samuel 14.10: 10 But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”

1 Samuel 14.11: 11 Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”

1 Samuel 14.12: 12 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something!”

Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”

1 Samuel 14.13: 13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.

1 Samuel 14.14: 14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.

1 Samuel 14.15: 15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.

1 Samuel 14.16: 16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.

1 Samuel 14.17: 17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

1 Samuel 14.18: 18 Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.

1 Samuel 14.19: 19 While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”

1 Samuel 14.20: 20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in very great confusion.

1 Samuel 14.21: 21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before, and who went up with them into the camp, from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 14.22: 22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

1 Samuel 14.23: 23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

1 Samuel 14.24: 24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.

1 Samuel 14.25: 25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

1 Samuel 14.26: 26 When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

1 Samuel 14.27: 27 But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

1 Samuel 14.28: 28 Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” So the people were faint.

1 Samuel 14.29: 29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

1 Samuel 14.30: 30 How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 14.31: 31 They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

1 Samuel 14.32: 32 and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14.33: 33 Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.”

1 Samuel 14.34: 34 Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.’” All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.

1 Samuel 14.35: 35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 14.36: 36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let’s not leave a man of them.”

1 Samuel 14.37: 37 Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.

1 Samuel 14.38: 38 Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.

1 Samuel 14.39: 39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

1 Samuel 14.40: 40 Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.”

1 Samuel 14.41: 41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.”

1 Samuel 14.43: 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!”

Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”

1 Samuel 14.44: 44 Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

1 Samuel 14.45: 45 The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

1 Samuel 14.46: 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

1 Samuel 14.47: 47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.

1 Samuel 14.48: 48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

1 Samuel 14.49: 49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.

1 Samuel 14.50: 50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

1 Samuel 14.51: 51 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

1 Samuel 14.52: 52 There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

1 Samuel 15.1: 15Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

1 Samuel 15.2: 2 Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

1 Samuel 15.3: 3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 15.4: 4 Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

1 Samuel 15.5: 5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

1 Samuel 15.6: 6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15.7: 7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

1 Samuel 15.8: 8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 15.9: 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Samuel 15.11: 11 “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

1 Samuel 15.12: 12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15.13: 13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

1 Samuel 15.14: 14 Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

1 Samuel 15.15: 15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

1 Samuel 15.16: 16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.”

1 Samuel 15.17: 17 Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

1 Samuel 15.18: 18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

1 Samuel 15.19: 19 Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

1 Samuel 15.20: 20 Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15.21: 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15.22: 22 Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15.23: 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.1 Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 15.24: 24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 15.25: 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”

1 Samuel 15.26: 26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

1 Samuel 15.27: 27 As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

1 Samuel 15.28: 28 Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

1 Samuel 15.29: 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

1 Samuel 15.30: 30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

1 Samuel 15.32: 32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!”

Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

1 Samuel 15.33: 33 Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

1 Samuel 15.34: 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 15.35: 35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16.1: 16Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

1 Samuel 16.2: 2 Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”

Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 16.3: 3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”

1 Samuel 16.4: 4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

1 Samuel 16.5: 5 He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 16.6: 6 When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”

1 Samuel 16.7: 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16.8: 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

1 Samuel 16.9: 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

1 Samuel 16.10: 10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”

Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

1 Samuel 16.12: 12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

1 Samuel 16.13: 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 16.14: 14 Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

1 Samuel 16.15: 15 Saul’s servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.

1 Samuel 16.16: 16 Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well.”

1 Samuel 16.17: 17 Saul said to his servants, “Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 16.18: 18 Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

1 Samuel 16.19: 19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”

1 Samuel 16.20: 20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

1 Samuel 16.21: 21 David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

1 Samuel 16.22: 22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”

1 Samuel 16.23: 23 When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

1 Samuel 17.1: 17Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

1 Samuel 17.2: 2 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17.3: 3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

1 Samuel 17.4: 4 A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span1 went out.

1 Samuel 17.5: 5 He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels2 of bronze.

1 Samuel 17.6: 6 He had bronze shin armor on his legs, and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.

1 Samuel 17.7: 7 The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron.3 His shield bearer went before him.

1 Samuel 17.8: 8 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 17.9: 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.”

1 Samuel 17.10: 10 The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”

1 Samuel 17.11: 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

1 Samuel 17.12: 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

1 Samuel 17.13: 13 The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

1 Samuel 17.15: 15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17.16: 16 The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

1 Samuel 17.17: 17 Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah 4 of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

1 Samuel 17.18: 18 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

1 Samuel 17.19: 19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17.20: 20 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

1 Samuel 17.21: 21 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

1 Samuel 17.22: 22 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

1 Samuel 17.23: 23 As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them.

1 Samuel 17.24: 24 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

1 Samuel 17.25: 25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

1 Samuel 17.26: 26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17.27: 27 The people answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”

1 Samuel 17.28: 28 Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

1 Samuel 17.29: 29 David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”

1 Samuel 17.30: 30 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.

1 Samuel 17.31: 31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

1 Samuel 17.32: 32 David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

1 Samuel 17.33: 33 Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

1 Samuel 17.34: 34 David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

1 Samuel 17.35: 35 I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

1 Samuel 17.36: 36 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

1 Samuel 17.37: 37 David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.”

1 Samuel 17.38: 38 Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.

1 Samuel 17.39: 39 David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these; for I have not tested them.” Then David took them off.

1 Samuel 17.40: 40 He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine.

1 Samuel 17.41: 41 The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

1 Samuel 17.42: 42 When the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.

1 Samuel 17.43: 43 The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Samuel 17.44: 44 The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.”

1 Samuel 17.45: 45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

1 Samuel 17.46: 46 Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

1 Samuel 17.47: 47 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

1 Samuel 17.48: 48 When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

1 Samuel 17.49: 49 David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

1 Samuel 17.50: 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

1 Samuel 17.51: 51 Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

1 Samuel 17.52: 52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron.

1 Samuel 17.53: 53 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines and they plundered their camp.

1 Samuel 17.54: 54 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.

1 Samuel 17.55: 55 When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?”

1 Samuel 17.57: 57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

1 Samuel 18.1: 18When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18.2: 2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.

1 Samuel 18.3: 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18.4: 4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.

1 Samuel 18.5: 5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

1 Samuel 18.6: 6 As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

1 Samuel 18.8: 8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 18.10: 10 On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;

1 Samuel 18.11: 11 and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

1 Samuel 18.12: 12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

1 Samuel 18.13: 13 Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

1 Samuel 18.14: 14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

1 Samuel 18.15: 15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

1 Samuel 18.16: 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

1 Samuel 18.17: 17 Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

1 Samuel 18.18: 18 David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”

1 Samuel 18.19: 19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

1 Samuel 18.20: 20 Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

1 Samuel 18.21: 21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

1 Samuel 18.22: 22 Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”

1 Samuel 18.23: 23 Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and little known?”

1 Samuel 18.24: 24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”

1 Samuel 18.25: 25 Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 18.26: 26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

1 Samuel 18.27: 27 David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

1 Samuel 18.28: 28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

1 Samuel 18.29: 29 Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

1 Samuel 18.30: 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

1 Samuel 19.1: 19Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

1 Samuel 19.2: 2 Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

1 Samuel 19.3: 3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”

1 Samuel 19.4: 4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

1 Samuel 19.5: 5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

1 Samuel 19.6: 6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”

1 Samuel 19.7: 7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

1 Samuel 19.8: 8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

1 Samuel 19.9: 9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.

1 Samuel 19.10: 10 Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 19.11: 11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

1 Samuel 19.12: 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

1 Samuel 19.13: 13 Michal took the teraphim,1 and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

1 Samuel 19.14: 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

1 Samuel 19.15: 15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

1 Samuel 19.16: 16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

1 Samuel 19.17: 17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?”

Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”

1 Samuel 19.18: 18 Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

1 Samuel 19.19: 19 Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

1 Samuel 19.20: 20 Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 19.21: 21 When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 19.22: 22 Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?”

1 Samuel 19.23: 23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

1 Samuel 19.24: 24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

1 Samuel 20.1: 20David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

1 Samuel 20.2: 2 He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

1 Samuel 20.3: 3 David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

1 Samuel 20.4: 4 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”

1 Samuel 20.5: 5 David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

1 Samuel 20.6: 6 If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’

1 Samuel 20.7: 7 If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

1 Samuel 20.8: 8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”

1 Samuel 20.9: 9 Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”

1 Samuel 20.10: 10 Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”

1 Samuel 20.11: 11 Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.

1 Samuel 20.12: 12 Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you, and disclose it to you?

1 Samuel 20.13: 13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

1 Samuel 20.14: 14 You shall not only show me the loving kindness of Yahweh while I still live, that I not die;

1 Samuel 20.15: 15 but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”

1 Samuel 20.16: 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

1 Samuel 20.17: 17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 20.18: 18 Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

1 Samuel 20.19: 19 When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20.20: 20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.

1 Samuel 20.21: 21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives.

1 Samuel 20.22: 22 But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20.23: 23 Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”

1 Samuel 20.24: 24 So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.

1 Samuel 20.25: 25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.

1 Samuel 20.26: 26 Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”

1 Samuel 20.27: 27 On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?”

1 Samuel 20.28: 28 Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 20.29: 29 He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”

1 Samuel 20.30: 30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

1 Samuel 20.31: 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

1 Samuel 20.32: 32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

1 Samuel 20.33: 33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

1 Samuel 20.34: 34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

1 Samuel 20.35: 35 In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.

1 Samuel 20.36: 36 He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

1 Samuel 20.37: 37 When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”

1 Samuel 20.38: 38 Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

1 Samuel 20.39: 39 But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

1 Samuel 20.40: 40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”

1 Samuel 20.41: 41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.

1 Samuel 20.42: 42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

1 Samuel 21.1: 21Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”

1 Samuel 21.2: 2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’

1 Samuel 21.3: 3 Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”

1 Samuel 21.4: 4 The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

1 Samuel 21.5: 5 David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”

1 Samuel 21.6: 6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1 Samuel 21.7: 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

1 Samuel 21.8: 8 David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

1 Samuel 21.9: 9 The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it; for there is no other except that here.”

1 Samuel 21.10: 10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

1 Samuel 21.11: 11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying,

1 Samuel 21.12: 12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

1 Samuel 21.13: 13 He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

1 Samuel 21.14: 14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?

1 Samuel 21.15: 15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

1 Samuel 22.1: 22David therefore departed from there, and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 22.2: 2 Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

1 Samuel 22.3: 3 David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 22.4: 4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

1 Samuel 22.5: 5 The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.”

1 Samuel 22.6: 6 Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

1 Samuel 22.7: 7 Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

1 Samuel 22.8: 8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

1 Samuel 22.9: 9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

1 Samuel 22.10: 10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

1 Samuel 22.11: 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

1 Samuel 22.13: 13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

1 Samuel 22.14: 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

1 Samuel 22.15: 15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

1 Samuel 22.16: 16 The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

1 Samuel 22.17: 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22.19: 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 22.20: 20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

1 Samuel 22.22: 22 David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.

1 Samuel 22.23: 23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”

1 Samuel 23.1: 23David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”

1 Samuel 23.2: 2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?”

1 Samuel 23.3: 3 David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

1 Samuel 23.4: 4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 23.5: 5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 23.6: 6 When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

1 Samuel 23.7: 7 Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”

1 Samuel 23.8: 8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

1 Samuel 23.9: 9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

1 Samuel 23.10: 10 Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

1 Samuel 23.11: 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.”

1 Samuel 23.12: 12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?”

1 Samuel 23.13: 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

1 Samuel 23.14: 14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

1 Samuel 23.15: 15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

1 Samuel 23.16: 16 Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

1 Samuel 23.17: 17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

1 Samuel 23.18: 18 They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

1 Samuel 23.19: 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1 Samuel 23.20: 20 Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

1 Samuel 23.21: 21 Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

1 Samuel 23.22: 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.

1 Samuel 23.23: 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 23.24: 24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

1 Samuel 23.25: 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

1 Samuel 23.26: 26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

1 Samuel 23.27: 27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”

1 Samuel 23.28: 28 So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.1

1 Samuel 23.29: 29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

1 Samuel 24.1: 24When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

1 Samuel 24.2: 2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

1 Samuel 24.3: 3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.

1 Samuel 24.4: 4 David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

1 Samuel 24.5: 5 Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

1 Samuel 24.6: 6 He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

1 Samuel 24.7: 7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

1 Samuel 24.8: 8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!”

When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

1 Samuel 24.9: 9 David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

1 Samuel 24.10: 10 Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

1 Samuel 24.11: 11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

1 Samuel 24.12: 12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

1 Samuel 24.13: 13 As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

1 Samuel 24.14: 14 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

1 Samuel 24.15: 15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

1 Samuel 24.16: 16 It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

1 Samuel 24.17: 17 He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

1 Samuel 24.18: 18 You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.

1 Samuel 24.19: 19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.

1 Samuel 24.20: 20 Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

1 Samuel 24.21: 21 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”

1 Samuel 24.22: 22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Samuel 25.1: 25Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah.

1 Samuel 25.2: 2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25.3: 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25.4: 4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

1 Samuel 25.5: 5 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

1 Samuel 25.6: 6 Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

1 Samuel 25.7: 7 Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25.8: 8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’”

1 Samuel 25.9: 9 When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.

1 Samuel 25.10: 10 Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

1 Samuel 25.11: 11 Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

1 Samuel 25.12: 12 So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him all these words.

Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

1 Samuel 25.14: 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.

1 Samuel 25.15: 15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

1 Samuel 25.16: 16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

1 Samuel 25.17: 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

1 Samuel 25.18: 18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs1 of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

1 Samuel 25.19: 19 She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

1 Samuel 25.20: 20 As she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

1 Samuel 25.21: 21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

1 Samuel 25.22: 22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.” 2

1 Samuel 25.23: 23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

1 Samuel 25.24: 24 She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

1 Samuel 25.25: 25 Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal3 is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

1 Samuel 25.26: 26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

1 Samuel 25.27: 27 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

1 Samuel 25.28: 28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

1 Samuel 25.29: 29 Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

1 Samuel 25.30: 30 It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

1 Samuel 25.31: 31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 25.32: 32 David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

1 Samuel 25.33: 33 Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

1 Samuel 25.34: 34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”4

1 Samuel 25.35: 35 So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”

1 Samuel 25.36: 36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

1 Samuel 25.37: 37 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

1 Samuel 25.39: 39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

1 Samuel 25.40: 40 When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”

1 Samuel 25.41: 41 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

1 Samuel 25.42: 42 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25.43: 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

1 Samuel 25.44: 44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

1 Samuel 26.1: 26The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

1 Samuel 26.2: 2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 26.3: 3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

1 Samuel 26.4: 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

1 Samuel 26.5: 5 Then David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

1 Samuel 26.6: 6 Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?”

1 Samuel 26.7: 7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.

1 Samuel 26.8: 8 Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

1 Samuel 26.9: 9 David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26.10: 10 David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 26.11: 11 Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

1 Samuel 26.12: 12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.

1 Samuel 26.13: 13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

1 Samuel 26.14: 14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?”

1 Samuel 26.15: 15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

1 Samuel 26.16: 16 This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

1 Samuel 26.17: 17 Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?”

1 Samuel 26.18: 18 He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

1 Samuel 26.19: 19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

1 Samuel 26.20: 20 Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

1 Samuel 26.21: 21 Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

1 Samuel 26.22: 22 David answered, “Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

1 Samuel 26.23: 23 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

1 Samuel 26.24: 24 Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”

1 Samuel 26.25: 25 Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

1 Samuel 27.1: 27David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

1 Samuel 27.2: 2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

1 Samuel 27.3: 3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

1 Samuel 27.4: 4 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

1 Samuel 27.5: 5 David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”

1 Samuel 27.6: 6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.

1 Samuel 27.7: 7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

1 Samuel 27.8: 8 David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 27.9: 9 David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.

David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

1 Samuel 27.11: 11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

1 Samuel 27.12: 12 Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”

1 Samuel 28.1: 28In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”

1 Samuel 28.2: 2 David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.”

1 Samuel 28.3: 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land.

1 Samuel 28.4: 4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.

1 Samuel 28.5: 5 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

1 Samuel 28.6: 6 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.

1 Samuel 28.7: 7 Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.”

His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.”

1 Samuel 28.8: 8 Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”

1 Samuel 28.9: 9 The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”

1 Samuel 28.10: 10 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”

1 Samuel 28.12: 12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”

1 Samuel 28.13: 13 The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?”

She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.

1 Samuel 28.15: 15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?”

Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

1 Samuel 28.16: 16 Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

1 Samuel 28.17: 17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

1 Samuel 28.18: 18 Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

1 Samuel 28.19: 19 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 28.20: 20 Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.

1 Samuel 28.21: 21 The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

1 Samuel 28.22: 22 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.”

1 Samuel 28.23: 23 But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

1 Samuel 28.24: 24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.

1 Samuel 28.25: 25 She brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

1 Samuel 29.1: 29Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

1 Samuel 29.2: 2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

1 Samuel 29.3: 3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?”

Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today.”

1 Samuel 29.4: 4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

1 Samuel 29.5: 5 Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying,

1 Samuel 29.6: 6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

1 Samuel 29.7: 7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 29.8: 8 David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

1 Samuel 29.9: 9 Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

1 Samuel 29.10: 10 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.”

1 Samuel 29.11: 11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

1 Samuel 30.1: 30When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

1 Samuel 30.2: 2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

1 Samuel 30.3: 3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

1 Samuel 30.4: 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

1 Samuel 30.5: 5 David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

1 Samuel 30.6: 6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

1 Samuel 30.7: 7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.”

1 Samuel 30.8: 8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?”

He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

1 Samuel 30.9: 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

1 Samuel 30.10: 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.

1 Samuel 30.11: 11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

1 Samuel 30.12: 12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 30.13: 13 David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?”

He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.

1 Samuel 30.14: 14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

1 Samuel 30.15: 15 David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?”

He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

1 Samuel 30.16: 16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

1 Samuel 30.17: 17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

1 Samuel 30.18: 18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30.19: 19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

1 Samuel 30.20: 20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”

1 Samuel 30.21: 21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

1 Samuel 30.22: 22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

1 Samuel 30.23: 23 Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

1 Samuel 30.24: 24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

1 Samuel 30.25: 25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

1 Samuel 30.26: 26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”

1 Samuel 30.27: 27 He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,

1 Samuel 30.28: 28 to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,

1 Samuel 30.29: 29 to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

1 Samuel 30.30: 30 to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,

1 Samuel 30.31: 31 to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

1 Samuel 31.1: 31Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 31.2: 2 The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

1 Samuel 31.3: 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

1 Samuel 31.4: 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

1 Samuel 31.5: 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

1 Samuel 31.6: 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

1 Samuel 31.7: 7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

1 Samuel 31.8: 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 31.9: 9 They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.

1 Samuel 31.10: 10 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

1 Samuel 31.11: 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Samuel 31.12: 12 all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

1 Samuel 31.13: 13 They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk1 tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

2 Samuel 1.1: 1After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

2 Samuel 1.2: 2 on the third day, behold,1 a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”

2 Samuel 1.5: 5 David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”

2 Samuel 1.6: 6 The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him.

2 Samuel 1.7: 7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’

2 Samuel 1.8: 8 He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

2 Samuel 1.9: 9 He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’

2 Samuel 1.10: 10 So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”

2 Samuel 1.11: 11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

2 Samuel 1.12: 12 They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh,2 and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 1.13: 13 David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?”

2 Samuel 1.14: 14 David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”

2 Samuel 1.15: 15 David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.

2 Samuel 1.16: 16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”

2 Samuel 1.17: 17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

2 Samuel 1.18: 18 (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

2 Samuel 2.1: 2After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”

2 Samuel 2.2: 2 So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

2 Samuel 2.3: 3 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.

2 Samuel 2.4: 4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

2 Samuel 2.5: 5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

2 Samuel 2.6: 6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

2 Samuel 2.7: 7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”

2 Samuel 2.8: 8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

2 Samuel 2.9: 9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

2 Samuel 2.10: 10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

2 Samuel 2.11: 11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 2.12: 12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2.13: 13 Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

2 Samuel 2.14: 14 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!”

2 Samuel 2.15: 15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.

2 Samuel 2.16: 16 They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.1

2 Samuel 2.17: 17 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.

2 Samuel 2.18: 18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

2 Samuel 2.19: 19 Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.

2 Samuel 2.20: 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is that you, Asahel?”

2 Samuel 2.21: 21 Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.

2 Samuel 2.22: 22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

2 Samuel 2.23: 23 However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

2 Samuel 2.24: 24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2.25: 25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

2 Samuel 2.26: 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

2 Samuel 2.27: 27 Joab said, “As God2 lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

2 Samuel 2.28: 28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.

2 Samuel 2.29: 29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 2.30: 30 Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.

2 Samuel 2.31: 31 But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.

2 Samuel 2.32: 32 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.

2 Samuel 3.1: 3Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

2 Samuel 3.2: 2 Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

2 Samuel 3.3: 3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

2 Samuel 3.4: 4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

2 Samuel 3.5: 5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

2 Samuel 3.6: 6 While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.

2 Samuel 3.7: 7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

2 Samuel 3.8: 8 Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

2 Samuel 3.9: 9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;

2 Samuel 3.10: 10 to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”

2 Samuel 3.11: 11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.

2 Samuel 3.12: 12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you.”

2 Samuel 3.13: 13 He said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”

2 Samuel 3.14: 14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 3.15: 15 Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.

2 Samuel 3.16: 16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.

2 Samuel 3.17: 17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

2 Samuel 3.18: 18 Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’”

2 Samuel 3.19: 19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.

2 Samuel 3.20: 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

2 Samuel 3.21: 21 Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

2 Samuel 3.22: 22 Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

2 Samuel 3.23: 23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”

2 Samuel 3.24: 24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?

2 Samuel 3.25: 25 You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”

2 Samuel 3.26: 26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.

2 Samuel 3.27: 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 3.28: 28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 3.29: 29 Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

2 Samuel 3.30: 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

2 Samuel 3.31: 31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

2 Samuel 3.32: 32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

2 Samuel 3.33: 33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

2 Samuel 3.34: 34 Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”

2 Samuel 3.35: 35 All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

2 Samuel 3.36: 36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

2 Samuel 3.37: 37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 3.38: 38 The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?

2 Samuel 3.39: 39 I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

2 Samuel 4.1: 4When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

2 Samuel 4.2: 2 Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin:

2 Samuel 4.3: 3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).

2 Samuel 4.4: 4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

2 Samuel 4.5: 5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

2 Samuel 4.6: 6 They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

2 Samuel 4.7: 7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

2 Samuel 4.8: 8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.1”

2 Samuel 4.9: 9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

2 Samuel 4.10: 10 when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

2 Samuel 4.11: 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

2 Samuel 4.12: 12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

2 Samuel 5.1: 5Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

2 Samuel 5.2: 2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 5.3: 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

2 Samuel 5.4: 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

2 Samuel 5.5: 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

2 Samuel 5.6: 6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here;” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”

2 Samuel 5.7: 7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

2 Samuel 5.8: 8 David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”

2 Samuel 5.9: 9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

2 Samuel 5.10: 10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

2 Samuel 5.11: 11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

2 Samuel 5.12: 12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

2 Samuel 5.13: 13 David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

2 Samuel 5.14: 14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

2 Samuel 5.17: 17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.

2 Samuel 5.18: 18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 5.19: 19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”

Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

2 Samuel 5.20: 20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.1

2 Samuel 5.21: 21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

2 Samuel 5.22: 22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 5.23: 23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.

2 Samuel 5.24: 24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 5.25: 25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.

2 Samuel 6.1: 6David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

2 Samuel 6.2: 2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above the cherubim.

2 Samuel 6.3: 3 They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

2 Samuel 6.4: 4 They brought it out of Abinadab’s house, which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark.

2 Samuel 6.5: 5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.

2 Samuel 6.6: 6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

2 Samuel 6.7: 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.

2 Samuel 6.8: 8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah,1 to this day.

2 Samuel 6.9: 9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”

2 Samuel 6.10: 10 So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

2 Samuel 6.11: 11 Yahweh’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.

2 Samuel 6.12: 12 King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.”

So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

2 Samuel 6.13: 13 When those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

2 Samuel 6.14: 14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

2 Samuel 6.15: 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

2 Samuel 6.16: 16 As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6.17: 17 They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

2 Samuel 6.18: 18 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

2 Samuel 6.19: 19 He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

2 Samuel 6.20: 20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

2 Samuel 6.21: 21 David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

2 Samuel 6.22: 22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”

2 Samuel 6.23: 23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

2 Samuel 7.1: 7When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

2 Samuel 7.2: 2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”

2 Samuel 7.3: 3 Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”

2 Samuel 7.5: 5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?

2 Samuel 7.6: 6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

2 Samuel 7.7: 7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’

2 Samuel 7.8: 8 Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

2 Samuel 7.9: 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

2 Samuel 7.10: 10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,

2 Samuel 7.11: 11 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

2 Samuel 7.12: 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 7.13: 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

2 Samuel 7.14: 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

2 Samuel 7.15: 15 but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

2 Samuel 7.16: 16 Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”

2 Samuel 7.17: 17 Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.

2 Samuel 7.18: 18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord1 Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

2 Samuel 7.19: 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!

2 Samuel 7.20: 20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

2 Samuel 7.21: 21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

2 Samuel 7.22: 22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

2 Samuel 7.23: 23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

2 Samuel 7.24: 24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

2 Samuel 7.25: 25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

2 Samuel 7.26: 26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’

2 Samuel 7.27: 27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

2 Samuel 7.28: 28 “Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

2 Samuel 7.29: 29 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”

2 Samuel 8.1: 8After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 8.2: 2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

2 Samuel 8.3: 3 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

2 Samuel 8.4: 4 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

2 Samuel 8.5: 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians.

2 Samuel 8.6: 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

2 Samuel 8.7: 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 8.8: 8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took a great quantity of bronze.

2 Samuel 8.9: 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,

2 Samuel 8.10: 10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.

2 Samuel 8.11: 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;

2 Samuel 8.12: 12 of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

2 Samuel 8.13: 13 David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

2 Samuel 8.14: 14 He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

2 Samuel 8.15: 15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

2 Samuel 8.16: 16 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

2 Samuel 8.17: 17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,

2 Samuel 8.18: 18 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.

2 Samuel 9.1: 9David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

2 Samuel 9.2: 2 There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”

2 Samuel 9.3: 3 The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?”

Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”

2 Samuel 9.5: 5 Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.

2 Samuel 9.6: 6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.”

2 Samuel 9.7: 7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

2 Samuel 9.8: 8 He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

2 Samuel 9.9: 9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.

2 Samuel 9.10: 10 Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.”

2 Samuel 9.11: 11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 9.12: 12 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.

2 Samuel 9.13: 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

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.

2 Samuel 11.1: 11At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11.2: 2 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

2 Samuel 11.3: 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”

2 Samuel 11.4: 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

2 Samuel 11.5: 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”

2 Samuel 11.6: 6 David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.

2 Samuel 11.7: 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

2 Samuel 11.8: 8 David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

2 Samuel 11.9: 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

2 Samuel 11.10: 10 When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”

2 Samuel 11.11: 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 11.12: 12 David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.

2 Samuel 11.13: 13 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

2 Samuel 11.14: 14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

2 Samuel 11.15: 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

2 Samuel 11.16: 16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

2 Samuel 11.17: 17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

2 Samuel 11.18: 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

2 Samuel 11.19: 19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,

2 Samuel 11.20: 20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?

2 Samuel 11.21: 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

2 Samuel 11.22: 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

2 Samuel 11.23: 23 The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.

2 Samuel 11.24: 24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”

2 Samuel 11.25: 25 Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”

2 Samuel 11.26: 26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 11.27: 27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

2 Samuel 12.1: 12Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

2 Samuel 12.3: 3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12.4: 4 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

2 Samuel 12.5: 5 David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!

2 Samuel 12.6: 6 He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

2 Samuel 12.7: 7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12.8: 8 I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

2 Samuel 12.9: 9 Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 12.10: 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

2 Samuel 12.11: 11 “This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

2 Samuel 12.12: 12 For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”

2 Samuel 12.14: 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

2 Samuel 12.16: 16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

2 Samuel 12.17: 17 The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

2 Samuel 12.18: 18 On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

2 Samuel 12.19: 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”

2 Samuel 12.20: 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.

2 Samuel 12.21: 21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”

2 Samuel 12.22: 22 He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

2 Samuel 12.23: 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

2 Samuel 12.24: 24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

2 Samuel 12.25: 25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah,1 for Yahweh’s sake.

2 Samuel 12.26: 26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

2 Samuel 12.27: 27 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.

2 Samuel 12.28: 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”

2 Samuel 12.29: 29 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

2 Samuel 12.30: 30 He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent2 of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.

2 Samuel 12.31: 31 He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 13.1: 13After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

2 Samuel 13.2: 2 Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

2 Samuel 13.3: 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

2 Samuel 13.4: 4 He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?”

2 Samuel 13.5: 5 Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’”

2 Samuel 13.6: 6 So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”

2 Samuel 13.7: 7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”

2 Samuel 13.8: 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

2 Samuel 13.9: 9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.

2 Samuel 13.10: 10 Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.

2 Samuel 13.11: 11 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”

2 Samuel 13.12: 12 She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.

2 Samuel 13.13: 13 As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”

2 Samuel 13.14: 14 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

2 Samuel 13.15: 15 Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”

2 Samuel 13.16: 16 She said to him, “Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!”

2 Samuel 13.17: 17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, “Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.”

2 Samuel 13.18: 18 She had a garment of various colors on her; for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her.

2 Samuel 13.19: 19 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

2 Samuel 13.20: 20 Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.”

2 Samuel 13.21: 21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.

2 Samuel 13.22: 22 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13.23: 23 After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 13.24: 24 Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”

2 Samuel 13.25: 25 The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

2 Samuel 13.26: 26 Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.”

2 Samuel 13.27: 27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

2 Samuel 13.28: 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

2 Samuel 13.29: 29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.

2 Samuel 13.30: 30 While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!”

2 Samuel 13.31: 31 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

2 Samuel 13.32: 32 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13.33: 33 Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.”

2 Samuel 13.34: 34 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

2 Samuel 13.35: 35 Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons are coming! It is as your servant said.”

2 Samuel 13.36: 36 As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

2 Samuel 13.37: 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.

2 Samuel 13.38: 38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

2 Samuel 13.39: 39 King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

2 Samuel 14.1: 14Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

2 Samuel 14.2: 2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

2 Samuel 14.3: 3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

2 Samuel 14.4: 4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

2 Samuel 14.6: 6 Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

2 Samuel 14.7: 7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

2 Samuel 14.8: 8 The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

2 Samuel 14.9: 9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

2 Samuel 14.10: 10 The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

2 Samuel 14.11: 11 Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.”

He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

2 Samuel 14.12: 12 Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 14.13: 13 The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

2 Samuel 14.14: 14 For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

2 Samuel 14.15: 15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

2 Samuel 14.16: 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

2 Samuel 14.17: 17 Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

2 Samuel 14.18: 18 Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.”

2 Samuel 14.19: 19 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”

The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.

2 Samuel 14.20: 20 Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

2 Samuel 14.21: 21 The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”

2 Samuel 14.22: 22 Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”

2 Samuel 14.23: 23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 14.24: 24 The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.

2 Samuel 14.25: 25 Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

2 Samuel 14.26: 26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels,1 after the king’s weight.

2 Samuel 14.27: 27 Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.

2 Samuel 14.28: 28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.

2 Samuel 14.29: 29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

2 Samuel 14.30: 30 Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

2 Samuel 14.31: 31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”

2 Samuel 14.32: 32 Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”

2 Samuel 14.33: 33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

2 Samuel 15.1: 15After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

2 Samuel 15.2: 2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?”

2 Samuel 15.3: 3 Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

2 Samuel 15.4: 4 Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

2 Samuel 15.5: 5 It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

2 Samuel 15.6: 6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 15.7: 7 At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

2 Samuel 15.8: 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

2 Samuel 15.10: 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

2 Samuel 15.11: 11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

2 Samuel 15.12: 12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

2 Samuel 15.13: 13 A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”

2 Samuel 15.14: 14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

2 Samuel 15.15: 15 The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”

2 Samuel 15.16: 16 The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

2 Samuel 15.17: 17 The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

2 Samuel 15.18: 18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

2 Samuel 15.19: 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

2 Samuel 15.20: 20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

2 Samuel 15.21: 21 Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

2 Samuel 15.22: 22 David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.

2 Samuel 15.23: 23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

2 Samuel 15.24: 24 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.

2 Samuel 15.25: 25 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

2 Samuel 15.26: 26 but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

2 Samuel 15.27: 27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

2 Samuel 15.28: 28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”

2 Samuel 15.29: 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.

2 Samuel 15.30: 30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

2 Samuel 15.31: 31 Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”

David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 15.32: 32 When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.

2 Samuel 15.33: 33 David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

2 Samuel 15.34: 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

2 Samuel 15.35: 35 Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

2 Samuel 15.36: 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”

2 Samuel 15.37: 37 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 16.1: 16When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.

Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”

Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”

2 Samuel 16.4: 4 Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.”

2 Samuel 16.5: 5 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.

2 Samuel 16.6: 6 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

2 Samuel 16.7: 7 Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

2 Samuel 16.8: 8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

2 Samuel 16.9: 9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”

2 Samuel 16.10: 10 The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

2 Samuel 16.11: 11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

2 Samuel 16.12: 12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

2 Samuel 16.13: 13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.

2 Samuel 16.14: 14 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.

2 Samuel 16.15: 15 Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

2 Samuel 16.16: 16 When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

2 Samuel 16.17: 17 Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

2 Samuel 16.18: 18 Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.

2 Samuel 16.19: 19 Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”

2 Samuel 16.20: 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

2 Samuel 16.21: 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”

2 Samuel 16.22: 22 So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 16.23: 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

2 Samuel 17.1: 17Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

2 Samuel 17.2: 2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

2 Samuel 17.3: 3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

2 Samuel 17.5: 5 Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”

2 Samuel 17.6: 6 When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”

2 Samuel 17.7: 7 Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

2 Samuel 17.8: 8 Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2 Samuel 17.9: 9 Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’

2 Samuel 17.10: 10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

2 Samuel 17.11: 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

2 Samuel 17.12: 12 So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.

2 Samuel 17.13: 13 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

2 Samuel 17.14: 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

2 Samuel 17.15: 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

2 Samuel 17.16: 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”

2 Samuel 17.17: 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

2 Samuel 17.18: 18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

2 Samuel 17.19: 19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.

2 Samuel 17.20: 20 Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

2 Samuel 17.21: 21 After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”

2 Samuel 17.22: 22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 17.23: 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

2 Samuel 17.24: 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

2 Samuel 17.25: 25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 17.27: 27 When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2 Samuel 17.28: 28 brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

2 Samuel 17.29: 29 honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

2 Samuel 18.1: 18David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

2 Samuel 18.2: 2 David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”

2 Samuel 18.3: 3 But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”

The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 18.5: 5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 18.6: 6 So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18.7: 7 The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18.8: 8 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

2 Samuel 18.9: 9 Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

2 Samuel 18.10: 10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

2 Samuel 18.11: 11 Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”

2 Samuel 18.12: 12 The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

2 Samuel 18.13: 13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

2 Samuel 18.14: 14 Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

2 Samuel 18.15: 15 Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

2 Samuel 18.16: 16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.

2 Samuel 18.17: 17 They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.

2 Samuel 18.18: 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

2 Samuel 18.19: 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”

2 Samuel 18.20: 20 Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”

2 Samuel 18.21: 21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

2 Samuel 18.22: 22 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.”

Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?”

He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.

2 Samuel 18.24: 24 Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18.25: 25 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.

2 Samuel 18.26: 26 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!”

2 Samuel 18.27: 27 The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.”

2 Samuel 18.28: 28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”

Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.”

2 Samuel 18.30: 30 The king said, “Come and stand here.” He came, and stood still.

2 Samuel 18.31: 31 Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”

2 Samuel 18.32: 32 The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?”

The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”

2 Samuel 18.33: 33 The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

2 Samuel 19.1: 19Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

2 Samuel 19.2: 2 The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

2 Samuel 19.3: 3 The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

2 Samuel 19.4: 4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

2 Samuel 19.5: 5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

2 Samuel 19.6: 6 in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

2 Samuel 19.7: 7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

2 Samuel 19.8: 8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

2 Samuel 19.9: 9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

2 Samuel 19.10: 10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”

2 Samuel 19.11: 11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

2 Samuel 19.12: 12 You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

2 Samuel 19.13: 13 Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”

2 Samuel 19.14: 14 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

2 Samuel 19.15: 15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19.16: 16 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

2 Samuel 19.17: 17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

2 Samuel 19.18: 18 A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19.19: 19 He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

2 Samuel 19.20: 20 For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 19.21: 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

2 Samuel 19.22: 22 David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

2 Samuel 19.23: 23 The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.

2 Samuel 19.24: 24 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

2 Samuel 19.25: 25 When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

2 Samuel 19.26: 26 He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.

2 Samuel 19.27: 27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

2 Samuel 19.28: 28 For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

2 Samuel 19.29: 29 The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

2 Samuel 19.30: 30 Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

2 Samuel 19.31: 31 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19.32: 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

2 Samuel 19.33: 33 The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”

2 Samuel 19.34: 34 Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

2 Samuel 19.35: 35 I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19.36: 36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

2 Samuel 19.37: 37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

2 Samuel 19.38: 38 The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”

2 Samuel 19.39: 39 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

2 Samuel 19.40: 40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 19.41: 41 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

2 Samuel 19.42: 42 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

2 Samuel 19.43: 43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20.1: 20There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

2 Samuel 20.2: 2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 20.3: 3 David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

2 Samuel 20.4: 4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”

2 Samuel 20.5: 5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

2 Samuel 20.6: 6 David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”

2 Samuel 20.7: 7 Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20.8: 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.

2 Samuel 20.9: 9 Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

2 Samuel 20.10: 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20.11: 11 One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”

2 Samuel 20.12: 12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

2 Samuel 20.13: 13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20.14: 14 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him.

2 Samuel 20.15: 15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

2 Samuel 20.16: 16 Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’”

2 Samuel 20.18: 18 Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter.

2 Samuel 20.19: 19 I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 20.20: 20 Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

2 Samuel 20.21: 21 The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.”

The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

2 Samuel 20.22: 22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

2 Samuel 20.23: 23 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,

2 Samuel 20.24: 24 Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,

2 Samuel 21.1: 21There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21.2: 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

2 Samuel 21.3: 3 and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 21.4: 4 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.”

2 Samuel 21.5: 5 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

2 Samuel 21.6: 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.”

2 Samuel 21.7: 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

2 Samuel 21.8: 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21.9: 9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Samuel 21.10: 10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

2 Samuel 21.11: 11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

2 Samuel 21.12: 12 So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

2 Samuel 21.13: 13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

2 Samuel 21.14: 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

2 Samuel 21.15: 15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

2 Samuel 21.16: 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.

2 Samuel 21.17: 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

2 Samuel 21.18: 18 After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

2 Samuel 21.19: 19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

2 Samuel 21.20: 20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand, and six toes on every foot, twenty four in count; and he also was born to the giant.

2 Samuel 21.21: 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.

2 Samuel 21.22: 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

2 Samuel 22.1: 22David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

2 Samuel 22.25: 25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

2 Samuel 22.50: 50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,

2 Samuel 23.7: 7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.

2 Samuel 23.8: 8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.

2 Samuel 23.9: 9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.

2 Samuel 23.10: 10 He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

2 Samuel 23.11: 11 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.

2 Samuel 23.12: 12 But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.

2 Samuel 23.13: 13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 23.14: 14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

2 Samuel 23.15: 15 David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

2 Samuel 23.16: 16 The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

2 Samuel 23.17: 17 He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

2 Samuel 23.18: 18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

2 Samuel 23.19: 19 Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

2 Samuel 23.20: 20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.

2 Samuel 23.21: 21 He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

2 Samuel 23.22: 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.

2 Samuel 23.23: 23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.

2 Samuel 23.24: 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

2 Samuel 23.29: 29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

2 Samuel 23.34: 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

2 Samuel 23.37: 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,

2 Samuel 24.1: 24Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 24.2: 2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

2 Samuel 24.3: 3 Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

2 Samuel 24.4: 4 Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24.5: 5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;

2 Samuel 24.6: 6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,

2 Samuel 24.7: 7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

2 Samuel 24.8: 8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Samuel 24.9: 9 Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

2 Samuel 24.10: 10 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

2 Samuel 24.11: 11 When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

2 Samuel 24.12: 12 “Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

2 Samuel 24.13: 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

2 Samuel 24.14: 14 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

2 Samuel 24.15: 15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

2 Samuel 24.16: 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24.17: 17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

2 Samuel 24.18: 18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24.19: 19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

2 Samuel 24.20: 20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

2 Samuel 24.21: 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

2 Samuel 24.22: 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

2 Samuel 24.23: 23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”

2 Samuel 24.24: 24 The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels1 of silver.

2 Samuel 24.25: 25 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

1 Kings 1.1: 1Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

1 Kings 1.2: 2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

1 Kings 1.3: 3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 1.4: 4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately.

1 Kings 1.5: 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

1 Kings 1.6: 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

1 Kings 1.7: 7 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

1 Kings 1.8: 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

1 Kings 1.9: 9 Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;

1 Kings 1.10: 10 but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.

1 Kings 1.11: 11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?

1 Kings 1.12: 12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.

1 Kings 1.13: 13 Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’

1 Kings 1.14: 14 Behold,1 while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”

1 Kings 1.15: 15 Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.

1 Kings 1.16: 16 Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

1 Kings 1.17: 17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh2 your God3 to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’

1 Kings 1.18: 18 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.

1 Kings 1.19: 19 He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.

1 Kings 1.20: 20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

1 Kings 1.21: 21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

1 Kings 1.22: 22 Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 1.24: 24 Nathan said, “My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’

1 Kings 1.25: 25 For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’

1 Kings 1.26: 26 But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

1 Kings 1.27: 27 Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

1 Kings 1.28: 28 Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.

1 Kings 1.29: 29 The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

1 Kings 1.30: 30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”

1 Kings 1.31: 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

1 Kings 1.32: 32 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.

1 Kings 1.33: 33 The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

1 Kings 1.34: 34 Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

1 Kings 1.35: 35 Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.”

1 Kings 1.36: 36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.

1 Kings 1.37: 37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.”

1 Kings 1.38: 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1.39: 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”

1 Kings 1.40: 40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.

1 Kings 1.41: 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”

1 Kings 1.42: 42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”

1 Kings 1.43: 43 Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.

1 Kings 1.44: 44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 1.45: 45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

1 Kings 1.47: 47 Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.

1 Kings 1.48: 48 Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”

1 Kings 1.49: 49 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way.

1 Kings 1.50: 50 Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 1.51: 51 Solomon was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 1.52: 52 Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

1 Kings 1.53: 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”

1 Kings 2.1: 2Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

1 Kings 2.2: 2 “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

1 Kings 2.3: 3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

1 Kings 2.4: 4 Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 2.5: 5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

1 Kings 2.6: 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol1 in peace.

1 Kings 2.7: 7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

1 Kings 2.8: 8 “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

1 Kings 2.9: 9 Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol2 with blood.”

1 Kings 2.10: 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

1 Kings 2.11: 11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 2.12: 12 Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

1 Kings 2.13: 13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”

1 Kings 2.15: 15 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

1 Kings 2.17: 17 He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”

1 Kings 2.18: 18 Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”

1 Kings 2.19: 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

1 Kings 2.20: 20 Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”

1 Kings 2.21: 21 She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

1 Kings 2.22: 22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

1 Kings 2.23: 23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

1 Kings 2.24: 24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

1 Kings 2.25: 25 King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

1 Kings 2.26: 26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord3 Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”

1 Kings 2.27: 27 So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

1 Kings 2.28: 28 This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 2.29: 29 King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”

1 Kings 2.30: 30 Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’”

Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

1 Kings 2.31: 31 The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

1 Kings 2.32: 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

1 Kings 2.33: 33 So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring4 forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

1 Kings 2.34: 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

1 Kings 2.35: 35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

1 Kings 2.36: 36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.

1 Kings 2.37: 37 For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

1 Kings 2.38: 38 Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

1 Kings 2.39: 39 At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”

1 Kings 2.40: 40 Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.

1 Kings 2.41: 41 Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.

1 Kings 2.42: 42 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’

1 Kings 2.43: 43 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”

1 Kings 2.44: 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

1 Kings 2.45: 45 But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”

1 Kings 2.46: 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

1 Kings 3.1: 3Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 3.2: 2 However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.

1 Kings 3.3: 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

1 Kings 3.4: 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

1 Kings 3.5: 5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

1 Kings 3.6: 6 Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

1 Kings 3.7: 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

1 Kings 3.8: 8 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

1 Kings 3.9: 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

1 Kings 3.10: 10 This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Kings 3.11: 11 God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

1 Kings 3.12: 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

1 Kings 3.13: 13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

1 Kings 3.14: 14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

1 Kings 3.15: 15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 3.16: 16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

1 Kings 3.17: 17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

1 Kings 3.18: 18 The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

1 Kings 3.20: 20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3.21: 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”

1 Kings 3.22: 22 The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.”

The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.

1 Kings 3.23: 23 Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

1 Kings 3.24: 24 The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3.25: 25 The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

1 Kings 3.26: 26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!”

1 Kings 3.27: 27 Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

1 Kings 3.28: 28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

1 Kings 4.2: 2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

1 Kings 4.3: 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

1 Kings 4.4: 4 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1 Kings 4.5: 5 Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

1 Kings 4.6: 6 Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

1 Kings 4.7: 7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

1 Kings 4.9: 9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

1 Kings 4.10: 10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

1 Kings 4.11: 11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

1 Kings 4.12: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

1 Kings 4.13: 13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

1 Kings 4.15: 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

1 Kings 4.19: 19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

1 Kings 4.20: 20 Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1 Kings 4.21: 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4.22: 22 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors1 of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

1 Kings 4.23: 23 ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

1 Kings 4.24: 24 For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

1 Kings 4.25: 25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 4.26: 26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1 Kings 4.27: 27 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.

1 Kings 4.28: 28 They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

1 Kings 4.29: 29 God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

1 Kings 4.30: 30 Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4.31: 31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

1 Kings 4.32: 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.

1 Kings 4.33: 33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

1 Kings 4.34: 34 People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

1 Kings 5.1: 5Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.

1 Kings 5.3: 3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 5.4: 4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.

1 Kings 5.5: 5 Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 5.6: 6 Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 5.7: 7 When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

1 Kings 5.8: 8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.

1 Kings 5.9: 9 My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

1 Kings 5.10: 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.

1 Kings 5.11: 11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors1 of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors2 of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

1 Kings 5.12: 12 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

1 Kings 5.13: 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

1 Kings 5.14: 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

1 Kings 5.15: 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

1 Kings 5.16: 16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

1 Kings 5.17: 17 The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

1 Kings 5.18: 18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

1 Kings 6.1: 6In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 6.2: 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits,1 and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

1 Kings 6.3: 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

1 Kings 6.5: 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

1 Kings 6.6: 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

1 Kings 6.7: 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

1 Kings 6.8: 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

1 Kings 6.9: 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

1 Kings 6.10: 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

1 Kings 6.12: 12 “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

1 Kings 6.13: 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

1 Kings 6.15: 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

1 Kings 6.16: 16 He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

1 Kings 6.18: 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

1 Kings 6.19: 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

1 Kings 6.20: 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

1 Kings 6.21: 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

1 Kings 6.22: 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

1 Kings 6.23: 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim2 of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

1 Kings 6.24: 24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

1 Kings 6.25: 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

1 Kings 6.27: 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.

1 Kings 6.29: 29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.

1 Kings 6.30: 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.

1 Kings 6.31: 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

1 Kings 6.32: 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

1 Kings 6.33: 33 He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

1 Kings 6.34: 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

1 Kings 6.35: 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

1 Kings 6.36: 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

1 Kings 6.37: 37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

1 Kings 6.38: 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.

1 Kings 7.1: 7Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

1 Kings 7.2: 2 For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits,1 its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

1 Kings 7.3: 3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.

1 Kings 7.4: 4 There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.

1 Kings 7.5: 5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.

1 Kings 7.6: 6 He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.

1 Kings 7.7: 7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

1 Kings 7.8: 8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

1 Kings 7.9: 9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

1 Kings 7.10: 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1 Kings 7.11: 11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

1 Kings 7.12: 12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

1 Kings 7.14: 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

1 Kings 7.15: 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.

1 Kings 7.16: 16 He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

1 Kings 7.17: 17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

1 Kings 7.18: 18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital.

1 Kings 7.19: 19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

1 Kings 7.20: 20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.

1 Kings 7.21: 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.

1 Kings 7.22: 22 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

1 Kings 7.23: 23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

1 Kings 7.24: 24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

1 Kings 7.25: 25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

1 Kings 7.26: 26 It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

1 Kings 7.27: 27 He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

1 Kings 7.28: 28 The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

1 Kings 7.29: 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

1 Kings 7.30: 30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and the four feet of it had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.

1 Kings 7.31: 31 Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

1 Kings 7.32: 32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

1 Kings 7.33: 33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.

1 Kings 7.34: 34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.

1 Kings 7.35: 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same.

1 Kings 7.36: 36 On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

1 Kings 7.37: 37 He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

1 Kings 7.38: 38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths;2 and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.

1 Kings 7.39: 39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.

1 Kings 7.40: 40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:

1 Kings 7.41: 41 the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

1 Kings 7.42: 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

1 Kings 7.45: 45 the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze.

1 Kings 7.46: 46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

1 Kings 7.47: 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

1 Kings 7.48: 48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;

1 Kings 7.49: 49 and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

1 Kings 7.50: 50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

1 Kings 7.51: 51 Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.1: 8Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

1 Kings 8.2: 2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

1 Kings 8.3: 3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.

1 Kings 8.4: 4 They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.

1 Kings 8.5: 5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 8.6: 6 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

1 Kings 8.7: 7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

1 Kings 8.8: 8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.

1 Kings 8.9: 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8.10: 10 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,

1 Kings 8.11: 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.12: 12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

1 Kings 8.13: 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

1 Kings 8.14: 14 The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.

1 Kings 8.15: 15 He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

1 Kings 8.16: 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8.17: 17 “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8.18: 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

1 Kings 8.19: 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 8.20: 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8.21: 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8.22: 22 Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

1 Kings 8.23: 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

1 Kings 8.24: 24 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

1 Kings 8.25: 25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

1 Kings 8.26: 26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

1 Kings 8.27: 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

1 Kings 8.28: 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

1 Kings 8.29: 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8.30: 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8.31: 31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

1 Kings 8.32: 32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 8.33: 33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

1 Kings 8.34: 34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

1 Kings 8.35: 35 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

1 Kings 8.36: 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

1 Kings 8.37: 37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

1 Kings 8.38: 38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

1 Kings 8.39: 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

1 Kings 8.40: 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

1 Kings 8.41: 41 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake

1 Kings 8.42: 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;

1 Kings 8.43: 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

1 Kings 8.44: 44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

1 Kings 8.45: 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

1 Kings 8.46: 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

1 Kings 8.47: 47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

1 Kings 8.48: 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

1 Kings 8.49: 49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

1 Kings 8.50: 50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

1 Kings 8.51: 51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

1 Kings 8.52: 52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

1 Kings 8.53: 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

1 Kings 8.54: 54 It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

1 Kings 8.55: 55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

1 Kings 8.56: 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

1 Kings 8.57: 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

1 Kings 8.58: 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

1 Kings 8.59: 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;

1 Kings 8.60: 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.

1 Kings 8.61: 61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

1 Kings 8.62: 62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

1 Kings 8.63: 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.64: 64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

1 Kings 8.65: 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

1 Kings 8.66: 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

1 Kings 9.1: 9When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 9.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Kings 9.3: 3 Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

1 Kings 9.4: 4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

1 Kings 9.5: 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 9.6: 6 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

1 Kings 9.7: 7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

1 Kings 9.8: 8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’

1 Kings 9.9: 9 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”

1 Kings 9.10: 10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house

1 Kings 9.11: 11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 9.12: 12 Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

1 Kings 9.13: 13 He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul1 to this day.

1 Kings 9.15: 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9.16: 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

1 Kings 9.19: 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

1 Kings 9.20: 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

1 Kings 9.21: 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

1 Kings 9.22: 22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

1 Kings 9.23: 23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

1 Kings 9.24: 24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

1 Kings 9.25: 25 Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

1 Kings 9.26: 26 King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

1 Kings 9.27: 27 Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings 9.28: 28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents,3 and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10.1: 10When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

1 Kings 10.2: 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

1 Kings 10.3: 3 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

1 Kings 10.4: 4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

1 Kings 10.5: 5 the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

1 Kings 10.6: 6 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.

1 Kings 10.7: 7 However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.

1 Kings 10.8: 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

1 Kings 10.9: 9 Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

1 Kings 10.10: 10 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10.11: 11 The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees1 and precious stones.

1 Kings 10.12: 12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day.

1 Kings 10.13: 13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants.

1 Kings 10.14: 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents2 of gold,

1 Kings 10.15: 15 in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.

1 Kings 10.16: 16 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels3 of gold went to one buckler.

1 Kings 10.17: 17 he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas4 of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings 10.18: 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

1 Kings 10.19: 19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

1 Kings 10.20: 20 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.

1 Kings 10.21: 21 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 10.22: 22 For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 10.23: 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

1 Kings 10.24: 24 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

1 Kings 10.25: 25 Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.

1 Kings 10.26: 26 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

1 Kings 10.27: 27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

1 Kings 10.28: 28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

1 Kings 10.29: 29 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels5 of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.

1 Kings 11.1: 11Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

1 Kings 11.2: 2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

1 Kings 11.3: 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

1 Kings 11.4: 4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

1 Kings 11.5: 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11.6: 6 Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

1 Kings 11.7: 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

1 Kings 11.8: 8 So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 11.9: 9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

1 Kings 11.10: 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.

1 Kings 11.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11.12: 12 Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

1 Kings 11.13: 13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

1 Kings 11.14: 14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.

1 Kings 11.15: 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

1 Kings 11.16: 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

1 Kings 11.17: 17 Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.

1 Kings 11.18: 18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.

1 Kings 11.19: 19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

1 Kings 11.20: 20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

1 Kings 11.21: 21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”

1 Kings 11.22: 22 Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?”

1 Kings 11.23: 23 God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

1 Kings 11.24: 24 He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.

1 Kings 11.25: 25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

1 Kings 11.26: 26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

1 Kings 11.27: 27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

1 Kings 11.28: 28 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

1 Kings 11.29: 29 At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.

1 Kings 11.30: 30 Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

1 Kings 11.31: 31 He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

1 Kings 11.32: 32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

1 Kings 11.33: 33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

1 Kings 11.34: 34 “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

1 Kings 11.35: 35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

1 Kings 11.36: 36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

1 Kings 11.37: 37 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

1 Kings 11.38: 38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 11.39: 39 I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”

1 Kings 11.40: 40 Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

1 Kings 11.41: 41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

1 Kings 11.42: 42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 11.43: 43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 12.1: 12Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

1 Kings 12.2: 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,

1 Kings 12.3: 3 and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

1 Kings 12.4: 4 “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

1 Kings 12.5: 5 He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.”

1 Kings 12.6: 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

1 Kings 12.7: 7 They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

1 Kings 12.8: 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

1 Kings 12.9: 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

1 Kings 12.10: 10 The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

1 Kings 12.11: 11 Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

1 Kings 12.12: 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

1 Kings 12.13: 13 The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

1 Kings 12.14: 14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12.15: 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kings 12.16: 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

1 Kings 12.17: 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 12.18: 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12.20: 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

1 Kings 12.21: 21 When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

1 Kings 12.23: 23 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

1 Kings 12.24: 24 ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s word, and returned and went their way, according to Yahweh’s word.

1 Kings 12.25: 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

1 Kings 12.26: 26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

1 Kings 12.27: 27 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

1 Kings 12.28: 28 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

1 Kings 12.30: 30 This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.

1 Kings 12.31: 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings 12.32: 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

1 Kings 12.33: 33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

1 Kings 13.1: 13Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 13.2: 2 He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”

1 Kings 13.3: 3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

1 Kings 13.4: 4 When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.

1 Kings 13.5: 5 The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.

1 Kings 13.6: 6 The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.”

The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.

1 Kings 13.7: 7 The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

1 Kings 13.8: 8 The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;

1 Kings 13.9: 9 for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’”

1 Kings 13.10: 10 So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.

1 Kings 13.11: 11 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

1 Kings 13.12: 12 Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.

1 Kings 13.13: 13 He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.

1 Kings 13.14: 14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”

1 Kings 13.16: 16 He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

1 Kings 13.17: 17 For it was said to me by Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’”

1 Kings 13.18: 18 He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

1 Kings 13.19: 19 So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

1 Kings 13.20: 20 As they sat at the table, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;

1 Kings 13.21: 21 and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

1 Kings 13.22: 22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”

1 Kings 13.23: 23 After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

1 Kings 13.24: 24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

1 Kings 13.25: 25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 13.26: 26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to him.”

1 Kings 13.27: 27 He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.

1 Kings 13.28: 28 He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

1 Kings 13.29: 29 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.

1 Kings 13.30: 30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

1 Kings 13.31: 31 After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

1 Kings 13.32: 32 For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”

1 Kings 13.33: 33 After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

1 Kings 13.34: 34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.

1 Kings 14.2: 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.

1 Kings 14.3: 3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

1 Kings 14.4: 4 Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

1 Kings 14.5: 5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

1 Kings 14.6: 6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

1 Kings 14.7: 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

1 Kings 14.8: 8 and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

1 Kings 14.9: 9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

1 Kings 14.10: 10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,1 he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

1 Kings 14.11: 11 The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’

1 Kings 14.12: 12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.

1 Kings 14.13: 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

1 Kings 14.14: 14 Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.

1 Kings 14.15: 15 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,2 because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

1 Kings 14.16: 16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

1 Kings 14.17: 17 Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

1 Kings 14.18: 18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kings 14.19: 19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

1 Kings 14.20: 20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 14.21: 21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14.22: 22 Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

1 Kings 14.23: 23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14.24: 24 There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 14.25: 25 In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

1 Kings 14.26: 26 and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14.27: 27 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

1 Kings 14.28: 28 It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

1 Kings 14.29: 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 14.31: 31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.1: 15Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

1 Kings 15.2: 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15.3: 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15.4: 4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

1 Kings 15.5: 5 because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 15.6: 6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

1 Kings 15.7: 7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1 Kings 15.8: 8 Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.9: 9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

1 Kings 15.10: 10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15.11: 11 Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.

1 Kings 15.12: 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 15.13: 13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

1 Kings 15.14: 14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

1 Kings 15.15: 15 He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.

1 Kings 15.16: 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 15.17: 17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

1 Kings 15.18: 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

1 Kings 15.19: 19 “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

1 Kings 15.20: 20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 15.21: 21 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

1 Kings 15.22: 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

1 Kings 15.23: 23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

1 Kings 15.24: 24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.25: 25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.

1 Kings 15.26: 26 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 15.27: 27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

1 Kings 15.28: 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.29: 29 As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;

1 Kings 15.30: 30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.

1 Kings 15.31: 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 15.32: 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 15.33: 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.

1 Kings 15.34: 34 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 16.1: 16Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

1 Kings 16.2: 2 “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

1 Kings 16.3: 3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kings 16.4: 4 The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”

1 Kings 16.5: 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.6: 6 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 16.7: 7 Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

1 Kings 16.8: 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16.9: 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

1 Kings 16.10: 10 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

1 Kings 16.11: 11 When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall1 among his relatives or his friends.

1 Kings 16.12: 12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

1 Kings 16.13: 13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16.14: 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.15: 15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

1 Kings 16.16: 16 The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

1 Kings 16.17: 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

1 Kings 16.18: 18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

1 Kings 16.19: 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

1 Kings 16.20: 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.21: 21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

1 Kings 16.22: 22 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

1 Kings 16.23: 23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.

1 Kings 16.24: 24 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents2 of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

1 Kings 16.25: 25 Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.

1 Kings 16.26: 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16.27: 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.28: 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 16.29: 29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

1 Kings 16.30: 30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.

1 Kings 16.31: 31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

1 Kings 16.32: 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

1 Kings 16.33: 33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

1 Kings 16.34: 34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

1 Kings 17.1: 17Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

1 Kings 17.3: 3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

1 Kings 17.4: 4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

1 Kings 17.5: 5 So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

1 Kings 17.6: 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

1 Kings 17.7: 7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

1 Kings 17.9: 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

1 Kings 17.10: 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

1 Kings 17.11: 11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

1 Kings 17.12: 12 She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

1 Kings 17.13: 13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

1 Kings 17.14: 14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

1 Kings 17.15: 15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

1 Kings 17.16: 16 The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

1 Kings 17.17: 17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

1 Kings 17.18: 18 She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

1 Kings 17.19: 19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

1 Kings 17.20: 20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

1 Kings 17.21: 21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

1 Kings 17.22: 22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

1 Kings 17.23: 23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

1 Kings 17.24: 24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

1 Kings 18.1: 18After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

1 Kings 18.2: 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

1 Kings 18.3: 3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

1 Kings 18.4: 4 for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18.5: 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

1 Kings 18.6: 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

1 Kings 18.7: 7 As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

1 Kings 18.8: 8 He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”

1 Kings 18.9: 9 He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

1 Kings 18.10: 10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

1 Kings 18.11: 11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

1 Kings 18.12: 12 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

1 Kings 18.13: 13 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18.14: 14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

1 Kings 18.15: 15 Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”

1 Kings 18.16: 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

1 Kings 18.17: 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

1 Kings 18.18: 18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

1 Kings 18.19: 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

1 Kings 18.20: 20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18.21: 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”

1 Kings 18.22: 22 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.

1 Kings 18.23: 23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

1 Kings 18.24: 24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.”

1 Kings 18.25: 25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

1 Kings 18.26: 26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

1 Kings 18.27: 27 At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

1 Kings 18.28: 28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

1 Kings 18.29: 29 When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

1 Kings 18.30: 30 Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.

1 Kings 18.31: 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

1 Kings 18.32: 32 With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs1 of seed.

1 Kings 18.33: 33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”

1 Kings 18.34: 34 He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.

1 Kings 18.35: 35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

1 Kings 18.36: 36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

1 Kings 18.37: 37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

1 Kings 18.38: 38 Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

1 Kings 18.39: 39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

1 Kings 18.40: 40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!”

They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

1 Kings 18.41: 41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

1 Kings 18.42: 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

1 Kings 18.43: 43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.”

1 Kings 18.44: 44 On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.”

He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”

1 Kings 18.45: 45 In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

1 Kings 18.46: 46 Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1 Kings 19.1: 19Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 19.2: 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

1 Kings 19.3: 3 When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 19.4: 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 19.5: 5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

1 Kings 19.6: 6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

1 Kings 19.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

1 Kings 19.8: 8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

1 Kings 19.9: 9 He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19.10: 10 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19.11: 11 He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.”

Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 19.12: 12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

1 Kings 19.13: 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19.14: 14 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

1 Kings 19.16: 16 Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

1 Kings 19.17: 17 He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

1 Kings 19.18: 18 Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

1 Kings 19.19: 19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.

1 Kings 19.20: 20 Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”

1 Kings 19.21: 21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

1 Kings 20.1: 20Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

1 Kings 20.2: 2 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Ben Hadad says,

1 Kings 20.3: 3 ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’”

1 Kings 20.4: 4 The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”

1 Kings 20.5: 5 The messengers came again, and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;

1 Kings 20.6: 6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”

1 Kings 20.7: 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

1 Kings 20.8: 8 All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”

1 Kings 20.9: 9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’”

1 Kings 20.10: 10 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

1 Kings 20.11: 11 The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”

1 Kings 20.12: 12 When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.

1 Kings 20.13: 13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”

He said, “Yahweh says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’”

1 Kings 20.15: 15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

1 Kings 20.16: 16 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

1 Kings 20.17: 17 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”

1 Kings 20.18: 18 He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

1 Kings 20.19: 19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

1 Kings 20.20: 20 They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

1 Kings 20.21: 21 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

1 Kings 20.22: 22 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

1 Kings 20.23: 23 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

1 Kings 20.24: 24 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.

1 Kings 20.25: 25 Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.”

1 Kings 20.26: 26 At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

1 Kings 20.27: 27 The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

1 Kings 20.28: 28 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

1 Kings 20.29: 29 They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.

1 Kings 20.30: 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

1 Kings 20.31: 31 His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”

1 Kings 20.32: 32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’”

1 Kings 20.33: 33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.”

1 Kings 20.34: 34 Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.”

“I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

1 Kings 20.35: 35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!”

1 Kings 20.36: 36 Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.

1 Kings 20.38: 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

1 Kings 20.39: 39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent1 of silver.’

The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”

1 Kings 20.41: 41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.

1 Kings 20.42: 42 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”

1 Kings 20.43: 43 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.

1 Kings 21.1: 21After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

1 Kings 21.2: 2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

1 Kings 21.3: 3 Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

1 Kings 21.4: 4 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

1 Kings 21.5: 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

1 Kings 21.6: 6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

1 Kings 21.7: 7 Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

1 Kings 21.8: 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

1 Kings 21.9: 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21.10: 10 Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

1 Kings 21.11: 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

1 Kings 21.12: 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21.13: 13 The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

1 Kings 21.14: 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

1 Kings 21.15: 15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

1 Kings 21.16: 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

1 Kings 21.18: 18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

1 Kings 21.19: 19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”

He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

1 Kings 21.21: 21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,1 and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

1 Kings 21.22: 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”

1 Kings 21.23: 23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

1 Kings 21.24: 24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”

1 Kings 21.25: 25 But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

1 Kings 21.26: 26 He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 21.27: 27 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

1 Kings 21.29: 29 “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

1 Kings 22.1: 22They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

1 Kings 22.2: 2 In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

1 Kings 22.3: 3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”

1 Kings 22.4: 4 He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”

Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

1 Kings 22.5: 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”

1 Kings 22.6: 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?”

1 Kings 22.7: 7 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”

1 Kings 22.8: 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”

1 Kings 22.9: 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”

1 Kings 22.10: 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

1 Kings 22.11: 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

1 Kings 22.12: 12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

1 Kings 22.13: 13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

1 Kings 22.14: 14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”

1 Kings 22.15: 15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?”

He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

1 Kings 22.16: 16 The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

1 Kings 22.17: 17 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”

1 Kings 22.18: 18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

1 Kings 22.19: 19 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

1 Kings 22.20: 20 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.

1 Kings 22.21: 21 A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

1 Kings 22.23: 23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

1 Kings 22.24: 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

1 Kings 22.25: 25 Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”

1 Kings 22.26: 26 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.

1 Kings 22.27: 27 Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

1 Kings 22.28: 28 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

1 Kings 22.29: 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.

1 Kings 22.30: 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

1 Kings 22.31: 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”

1 Kings 22.32: 32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.

1 Kings 22.33: 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

1 Kings 22.34: 34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”

1 Kings 22.35: 35 The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

1 Kings 22.36: 36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

1 Kings 22.37: 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

1 Kings 22.38: 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

1 Kings 22.39: 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 22.40: 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 22.41: 41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

1 Kings 22.42: 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

1 Kings 22.43: 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 22.45: 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 22.46: 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

1 Kings 22.48: 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.

1 Kings 22.49: 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.

1 Kings 22.50: 50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 22.51: 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

1 Kings 22.52: 52 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 22.53: 53 He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.

2 Kings 1.2: 2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

2 Kings 1.3: 3 But Yahweh’s1 angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God2 in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?

2 Kings 1.4: 4 Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.

2 Kings 1.5: 5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”

2 Kings 1.6: 6 They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”

2 Kings 1.7: 7 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”

2 Kings 1.8: 8 They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.”

2 Kings 1.9: 9 Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold,3 he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”

2 Kings 1.10: 10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kings 1.11: 11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”

2 Kings 1.12: 12 Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kings 1.13: 13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

2 Kings 1.14: 14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”

2 Kings 1.15: 15 Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.”

2 Kings 1.16: 16 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”

2 Kings 1.17: 17 So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.

2 Kings 1.18: 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 2.1: 2When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

2 Kings 2.2: 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.”

Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 2.3: 3 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?”

2 Kings 2.4: 4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.”

He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

2 Kings 2.5: 5 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?”

2 Kings 2.6: 6 Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.”

He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” Then they both went on.

2 Kings 2.7: 7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 2.8: 8 Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.

2 Kings 2.9: 9 When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.”

2 Kings 2.10: 10 He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”

2 Kings 2.11: 11 As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings 2.12: 12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 2.13: 13 He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

2 Kings 2.14: 14 He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

2 Kings 2.15: 15 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

2 Kings 2.16: 16 They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley.”

2 Kings 2.17: 17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.”

Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.

2 Kings 2.18: 18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’”

2 Kings 2.19: 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”

2 Kings 2.20: 20 He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” Then they brought it to him.

2 Kings 2.21: 21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’”

2 Kings 2.22: 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke.

2 Kings 2.23: 23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

2 Kings 2.24: 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

2 Kings 2.25: 25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

2 Kings 3.1: 3Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

2 Kings 3.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 3.3: 3 Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.

2 Kings 3.4: 4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.

2 Kings 3.5: 5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

2 Kings 3.6: 6 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

2 Kings 3.7: 7 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?”

He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

2 Kings 3.9: 9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

2 Kings 3.10: 10 The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

2 Kings 3.11: 11 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?”

One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”

2 Kings 3.12: 12 Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

2 Kings 3.13: 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.”

The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

2 Kings 3.14: 14 Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

2 Kings 3.15: 15 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.

2 Kings 3.16: 16 He said, “Yahweh says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’

2 Kings 3.17: 17 For Yahweh says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals.

2 Kings 3.18: 18 This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

2 Kings 3.19: 19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

2 Kings 3.20: 20 In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

2 Kings 3.21: 21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, and stood on the border.

2 Kings 3.22: 22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

2 Kings 3.23: 23 They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”

2 Kings 3.24: 24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites.

2 Kings 3.25: 25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

2 Kings 3.26: 26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

2 Kings 3.27: 27 Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

2 Kings 4.1: 4Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

2 Kings 4.2: 2 Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?”

2 Kings 4.3: 3 Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

2 Kings 4.4: 4 Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

2 Kings 4.5: 5 So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

2 Kings 4.6: 6 When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”

He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

2 Kings 4.7: 7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

2 Kings 4.8: 8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

2 Kings 4.9: 9 She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.

2 Kings 4.10: 10 Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”

2 Kings 4.12: 12 He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

2 Kings 4.13: 13 He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’”

2 Kings 4.15: 15 He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.

2 Kings 4.16: 16 He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.”

2 Kings 4.17: 17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

2 Kings 4.18: 18 When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.

2 Kings 4.20: 20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

2 Kings 4.21: 21 She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.

2 Kings 4.22: 22 She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.”

2 Kings 4.23: 23 He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.”

2 Kings 4.24: 24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”

2 Kings 4.25: 25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

2 Kings 4.26: 26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’”

2 Kings 4.27: 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

2 Kings 4.28: 28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

2 Kings 4.29: 29 Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 4.30: 30 The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.”

2 Kings 4.31: 31 Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

2 Kings 4.32: 32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.

2 Kings 4.33: 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

2 Kings 4.34: 34 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.

2 Kings 4.35: 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

2 Kings 4.36: 36 He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her.

2 Kings 4.37: 37 Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.

2 Kings 4.38: 38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 4.39: 39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.

2 Kings 4.40: 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

2 Kings 4.41: 41 But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

2 Kings 4.42: 42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

2 Kings 4.43: 43 His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?”

But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”

2 Kings 4.44: 44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.

2 Kings 5.1: 5Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

2 Kings 5.2: 2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

2 Kings 5.3: 3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”

2 Kings 5.4: 4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”

2 Kings 5.5: 5 The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”

He departed, and took with him ten talents1 of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

2 Kings 5.6: 6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

2 Kings 5.7: 7 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

2 Kings 5.8: 8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

2 Kings 5.9: 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

2 Kings 5.10: 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

2 Kings 5.11: 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

2 Kings 5.12: 12 Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

2 Kings 5.13: 13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

2 Kings 5.14: 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

2 Kings 5.15: 15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 5.16: 16 But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.”

2 Kings 5.17: 17 Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

2 Kings 5.18: 18 In this thing may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.”

2 Kings 5.20: 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

2 Kings 5.21: 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

2 Kings 5.22: 22 He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent2 of silver and two changes of clothing.’”

2 Kings 5.23: 23 Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

2 Kings 5.24: 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.

2 Kings 5.25: 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?”

2 Kings 5.26: 26 He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

2 Kings 5.27: 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring3 forever.”

2 Kings 6.1: 6The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

2 Kings 6.2: 2 Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.”

2 Kings 6.4: 4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

2 Kings 6.5: 5 But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”

2 Kings 6.6: 6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.

2 Kings 6.8: 8 Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

2 Kings 6.9: 9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”

2 Kings 6.10: 10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

2 Kings 6.11: 11 The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”

2 Kings 6.12: 12 One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

2 Kings 6.13: 13 He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.”

2 Kings 6.14: 14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

2 Kings 6.15: 15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

2 Kings 6.16: 16 He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

2 Kings 6.17: 17 Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

2 Kings 6.18: 18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.”

2 Kings 6.19: 19 Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.

2 Kings 6.20: 20 When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.”

Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.

2 Kings 6.21: 21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

2 Kings 6.22: 22 He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

2 Kings 6.23: 23 He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.

2 Kings 6.24: 24 After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

2 Kings 6.25: 25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab1 of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6.26: 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

2 Kings 6.27: 27 He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 6.29: 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

2 Kings 6.30: 30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

2 Kings 6.31: 31 Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

2 Kings 6.32: 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

2 Kings 6.33: 33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

2 Kings 7.1: 7Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah1 of fine flour will be sold for a shekel,2 and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 7.2: 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?”

2 Kings 7.3: 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

2 Kings 7.4: 4 If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

2 Kings 7.5: 5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.

2 Kings 7.6: 6 For the Lord3 had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”

2 Kings 7.7: 7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

2 Kings 7.8: 8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.

2 Kings 7.9: 9 Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

2 Kings 7.10: 10 So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

2 Kings 7.11: 11 He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king’s household within.

2 Kings 7.12: 12 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”

2 Kings 7.13: 13 One of his servants answered, “Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let’s send and see.”

2 Kings 7.14: 14 Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.”

2 Kings 7.15: 15 They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

2 Kings 7.16: 16 The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah4 of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,5 according to Yahweh’s word.

2 Kings 7.17: 17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

2 Kings 7.18: 18 It happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs6 of barley for a shekel,7 and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;”

2 Kings 7.19: 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

2 Kings 7.20: 20 It happened like that to him; for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died.

2 Kings 8.1: 8Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 8.2: 2 The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Kings 8.3: 3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

2 Kings 8.4: 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 8.5: 5 As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”

2 Kings 8.6: 6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

2 Kings 8.7: 7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God has come here.”

2 Kings 8.8: 8 The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 8.9: 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 8.10: 10 Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die.”

2 Kings 8.11: 11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 8.13: 13 Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?”

2 Kings 8.14: 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?”

2 Kings 8.15: 15 On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.

2 Kings 8.16: 16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 8.17: 17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 8.18: 18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

2 Kings 8.19: 19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

2 Kings 8.20: 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

2 Kings 8.21: 21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.

2 Kings 8.22: 22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

2 Kings 8.23: 23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 8.24: 24 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 8.25: 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 8.26: 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

2 Kings 8.27: 27 He walked in the way of Ahab’s house, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.

2 Kings 8.28: 28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

2 Kings 8.29: 29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

2 Kings 9.1: 9Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9.2: 2 When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

2 Kings 9.3: 3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”

2 Kings 9.4: 4 So the young man, even the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9.5: 5 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.”

2 Kings 9.6: 6 He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel.

2 Kings 9.7: 7 You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

2 Kings 9.8: 8 For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,1 both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

2 Kings 9.9: 9 I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

2 Kings 9.10: 10 The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

2 Kings 9.11: 11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?”

He said, “He said to me, ‘Yahweh says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”

2 Kings 9.13: 13 Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”

2 Kings 9.14: 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

2 Kings 9.15: 15 but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.”

2 Kings 9.16: 16 So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

2 Kings 9.17: 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.”

Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

2 Kings 9.18: 18 So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’”

The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”

2 Kings 9.19: 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’”

2 Kings 9.20: 20 The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.

He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

2 Kings 9.23: 23 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”

2 Kings 9.24: 24 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

2 Kings 9.25: 25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

2 Kings 9.26: 26 ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

2 Kings 9.27: 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

2 Kings 9.28: 28 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.

2 Kings 9.29: 29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

2 Kings 9.30: 30 When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

2 Kings 9.31: 31 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

2 Kings 9.32: 32 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?”

So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

2 Kings 9.34: 34 When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

2 Kings 9.35: 35 They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

2 Kings 9.37: 37 and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

2 Kings 10.1: 10Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,

2 Kings 10.2: 2 “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,

2 Kings 10.3: 3 Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

2 Kings 10.4: 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”

2 Kings 10.5: 5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”

2 Kings 10.6: 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.”

Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

2 Kings 10.7: 7 When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

2 Kings 10.8: 8 A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.”

He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

2 Kings 10.9: 9 In the morning, he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?

2 Kings 10.10: 10 Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”

2 Kings 10.11: 11 So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.

2 Kings 10.12: 12 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,

2 Kings 10.13: 13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?”

They answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.”

They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them.

2 Kings 10.15: 15 When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?”

“If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

2 Kings 10.16: 16 He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.

2 Kings 10.17: 17 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to Elijah.

2 Kings 10.18: 18 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

2 Kings 10.19: 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

2 Kings 10.21: 21 Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.

2 Kings 10.22: 22 He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!”

2 Kings 10.23: 23 Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

2 Kings 10.24: 24 So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

2 Kings 10.25: 25 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.

2 Kings 10.26: 26 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

2 Kings 10.27: 27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

2 Kings 10.29: 29 However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

2 Kings 10.30: 30 Yahweh said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”

2 Kings 10.31: 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 10.32: 32 In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;

2 Kings 10.33: 33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

2 Kings 10.34: 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 10.35: 35 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 10.36: 36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

2 Kings 11.1: 11Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

2 Kings 11.2: 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

2 Kings 11.3: 3 He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

2 Kings 11.4: 4 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 11.5: 5 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

2 Kings 11.6: 6 a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

2 Kings 11.7: 7 The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

2 Kings 11.8: 8 You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

2 Kings 11.9: 9 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 11.10: 10 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 11.11: 11 The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

2 Kings 11.12: 12 Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

2 Kings 11.13: 13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:

2 Kings 11.14: 14 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

2 Kings 11.15: 15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

2 Kings 11.16: 16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.

2 Kings 11.17: 17 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

2 Kings 11.18: 18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 11.19: 19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from Yahweh’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 11.20: 20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.

2 Kings 12.1: 12Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 Kings 12.2: 2 Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2 Kings 12.3: 3 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

2 Kings 12.4: 4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated,a and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

2 Kings 12.5: 5 let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

2 Kings 12.6: 6 But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.

2 Kings 12.7: 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

2 Kings 12.8: 8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

2 Kings 12.9: 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

2 Kings 12.10: 10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 12.11: 11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,

2 Kings 12.12: 12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

2 Kings 12.13: 13 But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;

2 Kings 12.14: 14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.

2 Kings 12.15: 15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

2 Kings 12.16: 16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.

2 Kings 12.17: 17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12.18: 18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12.19: 19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 12.20: 20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

2 Kings 12.21: 21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 13.1: 13In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.

2 Kings 13.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from it.

2 Kings 13.3: 3 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.

2 Kings 13.4: 4 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

2 Kings 13.5: 5 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.

2 Kings 13.6: 6 Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)

2 Kings 13.7: 7 For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

2 Kings 13.8: 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 13.9: 9 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 13.10: 10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years.

2 Kings 13.11: 11 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked in them.

2 Kings 13.12: 12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 13.13: 13 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 13.14: 14 Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

2 Kings 13.15: 15 Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took bow and arrows for himself.

2 Kings 13.16: 16 He said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he put his hand on it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.

2 Kings 13.17: 17 He said, “Open the window eastward;” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “Yahweh’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you will strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.”

2 Kings 13.18: 18 He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground;” and he struck three times, and stopped.

2 Kings 13.19: 19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it; whereas now you will strike Syria just three times.”

2 Kings 13.21: 21 As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

2 Kings 13.22: 22 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2 Kings 13.23: 23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.

2 Kings 13.24: 24 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 13.25: 25 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Joash struck him three times, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kings 14.1: 14In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 14.2: 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14.3: 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.

2 Kings 14.4: 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

2 Kings 14.5: 5 As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

2 Kings 14.6: 6 but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Kings 14.7: 7 He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

2 Kings 14.8: 8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”

2 Kings 14.9: 9 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

2 Kings 14.10: 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

2 Kings 14.11: 11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

2 Kings 14.13: 13 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.1

2 Kings 14.14: 14 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

2 Kings 14.15: 15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14.16: 16 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 14.17: 17 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2 Kings 14.18: 18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 14.19: 19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

2 Kings 14.20: 20 They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.

2 Kings 14.21: 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 14.22: 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.

2 Kings 14.23: 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.

2 Kings 14.24: 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 14.25: 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.

2 Kings 14.26: 26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.

2 Kings 14.27: 27 Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

2 Kings 14.28: 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14.29: 29 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.1: 15In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 15.2: 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15.3: 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

2 Kings 15.4: 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

2 Kings 15.5: 5 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

2 Kings 15.6: 6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 15.7: 7 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.8: 8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.

2 Kings 15.9: 9 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as his fathers had done. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.10: 10 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.11: 11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.12: 12 This was Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.

2 Kings 15.13: 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.

2 Kings 15.14: 14 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.15: 15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.16: 16 Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.

2 Kings 15.17: 17 In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.

2 Kings 15.18: 18 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.19: 19 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents1 of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2 Kings 15.20: 20 Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels2 of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

2 Kings 15.21: 21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 15.22: 22 Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.23: 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.

2 Kings 15.24: 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.25: 25 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.26: 26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.27: 27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.

2 Kings 15.28: 28 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.29: 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 15.30: 30 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 15.31: 31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.32: 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 15.33: 33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Kings 15.34: 34 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

2 Kings 15.35: 35 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 15.36: 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 15.37: 37 In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

2 Kings 15.38: 38 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 16.1: 16In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 16.2: 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh his God’s eyes, like David his father.

2 Kings 16.3: 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 16.4: 4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 16.5: 5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

2 Kings 16.6: 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.

2 Kings 16.7: 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”

2 Kings 16.8: 8 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 16.9: 9 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

2 Kings 16.10: 10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

2 Kings 16.11: 11 Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.

2 Kings 16.12: 12 When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.

2 Kings 16.13: 13 He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

2 Kings 16.14: 14 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.

2 Kings 16.15: 15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”

2 Kings 16.16: 16 Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

2 Kings 16.17: 17 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

2 Kings 16.18: 18 He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 16.19: 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 16.20: 20 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 17.1: 17In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.

2 Kings 17.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

2 Kings 17.3: 3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

2 Kings 17.4: 4 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.

2 Kings 17.5: 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

2 Kings 17.6: 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17.7: 7 It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

2 Kings 17.8: 8 and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

2 Kings 17.9: 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

2 Kings 17.10: 10 and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;

2 Kings 17.11: 11 and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

2 Kings 17.12: 12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

2 Kings 17.13: 13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

2 Kings 17.14: 14 Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

2 Kings 17.15: 15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

2 Kings 17.16: 16 They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

2 Kings 17.17: 17 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 17.18: 18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

2 Kings 17.19: 19 Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2 Kings 17.20: 20 Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

2 Kings 17.21: 21 For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.

2 Kings 17.22: 22 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them

2 Kings 17.23: 23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.

2 Kings 17.24: 24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 17.25: 25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

2 Kings 17.26: 26 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17.27: 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17.28: 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

2 Kings 17.29: 29 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

2 Kings 17.30: 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

2 Kings 17.31: 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kings 17.32: 32 So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

2 Kings 17.33: 33 They feared Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

2 Kings 17.34: 34 To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

2 Kings 17.35: 35 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

2 Kings 17.36: 36 but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.

2 Kings 17.37: 37 The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.

2 Kings 17.38: 38 You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.

2 Kings 17.39: 39 But you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 17.40: 40 However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before.

2 Kings 17.41: 41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

2 Kings 18.1: 18Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 18.2: 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 18.3: 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

2 Kings 18.4: 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 18.5: 5 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

2 Kings 18.6: 6 For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

2 Kings 18.7: 7 Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

2 Kings 18.8: 8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

2 Kings 18.9: 9 In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

2 Kings 18.10: 10 At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

2 Kings 18.11: 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

2 Kings 18.12: 12 because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.

2 Kings 18.13: 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

2 Kings 18.14: 14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents1 of gold.

2 Kings 18.15: 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

2 Kings 18.16: 16 At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18.17: 17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

2 Kings 18.18: 18 When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.

2 Kings 18.19: 19 Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

2 Kings 18.20: 20 You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

2 Kings 18.21: 21 Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

2 Kings 18.22: 22 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’

2 Kings 18.23: 23 Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

2 Kings 18.24: 24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2 Kings 18.25: 25 Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”

2 Kings 18.26: 26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Kings 18.27: 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

2 Kings 18.28: 28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18.29: 29 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

2 Kings 18.30: 30 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 18.31: 31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

2 Kings 18.32: 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”

2 Kings 18.33: 33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

2 Kings 18.34: 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

2 Kings 18.35: 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

2 Kings 18.36: 36 But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

2 Kings 18.37: 37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.

2 Kings 19.1: 19When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 19.2: 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

2 Kings 19.3: 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

2 Kings 19.4: 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

2 Kings 19.6: 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

2 Kings 19.7: 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

2 Kings 19.8: 8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

2 Kings 19.9: 9 When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

2 Kings 19.10: 10 ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: “Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19.11: 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?

2 Kings 19.12: 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

2 Kings 19.13: 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’”

2 Kings 19.14: 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

2 Kings 19.15: 15 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

2 Kings 19.16: 16 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

2 Kings 19.17: 17 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

2 Kings 19.18: 18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

2 Kings 19.19: 19 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”

2 Kings 19.20: 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

2 Kings 19.21: 21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

2 Kings 19.22: 22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

2 Kings 19.23: 23 By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

2 Kings 19.24: 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”

2 Kings 19.25: 25 Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

2 Kings 19.26: 26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

2 Kings 19.27: 27 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

2 Kings 19.28: 28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

2 Kings 19.29: 29 “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

2 Kings 19.30: 30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

2 Kings 19.31: 31 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.

2 Kings 19.32: 32 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

2 Kings 19.33: 33 He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

2 Kings 19.34: 34 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

2 Kings 19.35: 35 That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

2 Kings 19.36: 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

2 Kings 19.37: 37 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 20.1: 20In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”

2 Kings 20.2: 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

2 Kings 20.3: 3 “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Kings 20.4: 4 Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

2 Kings 20.5: 5 “Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 20.6: 6 I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”

2 Kings 20.8: 8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”

2 Kings 20.9: 9 Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

2 Kings 20.10: 10 Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

2 Kings 20.11: 11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

2 Kings 20.12: 12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

2 Kings 20.13: 13 Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

2 Kings 20.14: 14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”

Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

2 Kings 20.17: 17 ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

2 Kings 20.18: 18 ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

2 Kings 20.19: 19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”

2 Kings 20.20: 20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 20.21: 21 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 21.1: 21Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

2 Kings 21.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21.3: 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

2 Kings 21.4: 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 21.5: 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 21.6: 6 He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 21.7: 7 He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

2 Kings 21.8: 8 I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

2 Kings 21.9: 9 But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21.11: 11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;

2 Kings 21.12: 12 therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

2 Kings 21.13: 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

2 Kings 21.14: 14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,

2 Kings 21.15: 15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”

2 Kings 21.16: 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

2 Kings 21.17: 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 21.18: 18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 21.19: 19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

2 Kings 21.20: 20 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did.

2 Kings 21.21: 21 He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;

2 Kings 21.22: 22 and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.

2 Kings 21.23: 23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

2 Kings 21.24: 24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

2 Kings 21.25: 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 21.26: 26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 22.1: 22Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

2 Kings 22.2: 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

2 Kings 22.3: 3 In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to Yahweh’s house, saying,

2 Kings 22.4: 4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

2 Kings 22.5: 5 Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the damage to the house,

2 Kings 22.6: 6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

2 Kings 22.7: 7 However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

2 Kings 22.8: 8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

2 Kings 22.9: 9 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house.”

2 Kings 22.10: 10 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me.” Then Shaphan read it before the king.

2 Kings 22.11: 11 When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 22.12: 12 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

2 Kings 22.13: 13 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”

2 Kings 22.14: 14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.

2 Kings 22.15: 15 She said to them, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

2 Kings 22.16: 16 “Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

2 Kings 22.17: 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’”

2 Kings 22.18: 18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, tell him, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard,

2 Kings 22.19: 19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

2 Kings 22.20: 20 ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king.

2 Kings 23.1: 23The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23.2: 2 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 23.3: 3 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

2 Kings 23.4: 4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23.5: 5 He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

2 Kings 23.6: 6 He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Kings 23.7: 7 He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

2 Kings 23.8: 8 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

2 Kings 23.9: 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

2 Kings 23.10: 10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

2 Kings 23.11: 11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

2 Kings 23.12: 12 The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 23.13: 13 The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

2 Kings 23.14: 14 He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

2 Kings 23.15: 15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

2 Kings 23.16: 16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

2 Kings 23.18: 18 He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

2 Kings 23.19: 19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

2 Kings 23.20: 20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23.21: 21 The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

2 Kings 23.22: 22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

2 Kings 23.23: 23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23.24: 24 Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim,1 and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 23.25: 25 There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

2 Kings 23.26: 26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

2 Kings 23.27: 27 Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

2 Kings 23.28: 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 23.29: 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

2 Kings 23.30: 30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

2 Kings 23.31: 31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 Kings 23.32: 32 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.

2 Kings 23.33: 33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent2 of gold.

2 Kings 23.34: 34 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.

2 Kings 23.35: 35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

2 Kings 23.36: 36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

2 Kings 23.37: 37 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.

2 Kings 24.1: 24In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.

2 Kings 24.2: 2 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

2 Kings 24.3: 3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

2 Kings 24.4: 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

2 Kings 24.5: 5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 24.6: 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 24.7: 7 The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

2 Kings 24.8: 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 24.9: 9 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his father had done.

2 Kings 24.10: 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

2 Kings 24.11: 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,

2 Kings 24.12: 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 24.13: 13 He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.

2 Kings 24.14: 14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.

2 Kings 24.15: 15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Kings 24.16: 16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

2 Kings 24.17: 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

2 Kings 24.18: 18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 Kings 24.19: 19 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

2 Kings 24.20: 20 For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.

2 Kings 25.1: 25In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

2 Kings 25.2: 2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

2 Kings 25.3: 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

2 Kings 25.4: 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

2 Kings 25.5: 5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

2 Kings 25.6: 6 Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.

2 Kings 25.7: 7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2 Kings 25.8: 8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25.9: 9 He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

2 Kings 25.10: 10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25.11: 11 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

2 Kings 25.12: 12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

2 Kings 25.13: 13 The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the bronze pieces to Babylon.

2 Kings 25.14: 14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.

2 Kings 25.15: 15 The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

2 Kings 25.16: 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the bronze of all these vessels was not weighed.

2 Kings 25.17: 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,1 and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.

2 Kings 25.18: 18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

2 Kings 25.19: 19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.

2 Kings 25.20: 20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

2 Kings 25.21: 21 The king of Babylon attacked them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

2 Kings 25.22: 22 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.

2 Kings 25.23: 23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

2 Kings 25.24: 24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”

2 Kings 25.25: 25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, with the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

2 Kings 25.26: 26 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

2 Kings 25.27: 27 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

2 Kings 25.28: 28 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

2 Kings 25.29: 29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

2 Kings 25.30: 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

1 Chronicles 1.5: 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

1 Chronicles 1.9: 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1.10: 10 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

1 Chronicles 1.11: 11 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

1 Chronicles 1.12: 12 Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.

1 Chronicles 1.17: 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

1 Chronicles 1.18: 18 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.

1 Chronicles 1.19: 19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

1 Chronicles 1.20: 20 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

1 Chronicles 1.23: 23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

1 Chronicles 1.29: 29 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

1 Chronicles 1.31: 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

1 Chronicles 1.32: 32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1.33: 33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

1 Chronicles 1.34: 34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

1 Chronicles 1.35: 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

1 Chronicles 1.36: 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.

1 Chronicles 1.38: 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

1 Chronicles 1.39: 39 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.

1 Chronicles 1.40: 40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.

1 Chronicles 1.41: 41 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

1 Chronicles 1.42: 42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

1 Chronicles 1.43: 43 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

1 Chronicles 1.44: 44 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 1.45: 45 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 1.46: 46 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

1 Chronicles 1.48: 48 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 1.49: 49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 1.50: 50 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

1 Chronicles 1.51: 51 Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,

1 Chronicles 1.54: 54 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

1 Chronicles 2.1: 2These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

1 Chronicles 2.3: 3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s1 sight; and he killed him.

1 Chronicles 2.4: 4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

1 Chronicles 2.6: 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.

1 Chronicles 2.7: 7 The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.

1 Chronicles 2.9: 9 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

1 Chronicles 2.10: 10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

1 Chronicles 2.11: 11 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,

1 Chronicles 2.12: 12 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;

1 Chronicles 2.13: 13 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

1 Chronicles 2.16: 16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

1 Chronicles 2.17: 17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

1 Chronicles 2.18: 18 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

1 Chronicles 2.20: 20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.

1 Chronicles 2.21: 21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

1 Chronicles 2.22: 22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 2.23: 23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 2.24: 24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

1 Chronicles 2.25: 25 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

1 Chronicles 2.26: 26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.

1 Chronicles 2.27: 27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

1 Chronicles 2.28: 28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

1 Chronicles 2.29: 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

1 Chronicles 2.30: 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children.

1 Chronicles 2.31: 31 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.

1 Chronicles 2.32: 32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.

1 Chronicles 2.33: 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

1 Chronicles 2.34: 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

1 Chronicles 2.35: 35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.

1 Chronicles 2.36: 36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,

1 Chronicles 2.37: 37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,

1 Chronicles 2.38: 38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,

1 Chronicles 2.39: 39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,

1 Chronicles 2.40: 40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,

1 Chronicles 2.41: 41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.

1 Chronicles 2.42: 42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

1 Chronicles 2.44: 44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

1 Chronicles 2.45: 45 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

1 Chronicles 2.46: 46 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.

1 Chronicles 2.47: 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

1 Chronicles 2.49: 49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

1 Chronicles 2.50: 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,

1 Chronicles 2.51: 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.

1 Chronicles 2.52: 52 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

1 Chronicles 2.53: 53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

1 Chronicles 2.54: 54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

1 Chronicles 2.55: 55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

1 Chronicles 3.1: 3Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

1 Chronicles 3.2: 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

1 Chronicles 3.3: 3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:

1 Chronicles 3.4: 4 six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;

1 Chronicles 3.5: 5 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;

1 Chronicles 3.9: 9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

1 Chronicles 3.10: 10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

1 Chronicles 3.15: 15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.

1 Chronicles 3.16: 16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.

1 Chronicles 3.18: 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

1 Chronicles 3.19: 19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

1 Chronicles 3.20: 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five.

1 Chronicles 3.21: 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

1 Chronicles 3.22: 22 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

1 Chronicles 3.23: 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.

1 Chronicles 3.24: 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

1 Chronicles 4.2: 2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

1 Chronicles 4.3: 3 These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.

1 Chronicles 4.4: 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

1 Chronicles 4.6: 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

1 Chronicles 4.8: 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

1 Chronicles 4.9: 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez,1 saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”

1 Chronicles 4.10: 10 Jabez called on the God2 of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”

1 Chronicles 4.11: 11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

1 Chronicles 4.12: 12 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.

1 Chronicles 4.13: 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.

1 Chronicles 4.14: 14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.

1 Chronicles 4.15: 15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.

1 Chronicles 4.17: 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

1 Chronicles 4.18: 18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.

1 Chronicles 4.19: 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

1 Chronicles 4.20: 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.

1 Chronicles 4.21: 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

1 Chronicles 4.22: 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.

1 Chronicles 4.23: 23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work.

1 Chronicles 4.26: 26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

1 Chronicles 4.27: 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.

1 Chronicles 4.31: 31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.

1 Chronicles 4.32: 32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

1 Chronicles 4.33: 33 and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.

1 Chronicles 4.35: 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

1 Chronicles 4.36: 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,

1 Chronicles 4.37: 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—

1 Chronicles 4.38: 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

1 Chronicles 4.39: 39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

1 Chronicles 4.40: 40 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.

1 Chronicles 4.41: 41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

1 Chronicles 4.42: 42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

1 Chronicles 4.43: 43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

1 Chronicles 5.1: 5The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

1 Chronicles 5.2: 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

1 Chronicles 5.3: 3 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

1 Chronicles 5.4: 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

1 Chronicles 5.6: 6 and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.

1 Chronicles 5.7: 7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

1 Chronicles 5.8: 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon;

1 Chronicles 5.9: 9 and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 5.10: 10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 5.11: 11 The sons of Gad lived beside them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:

1 Chronicles 5.12: 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

1 Chronicles 5.13: 13 Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.

1 Chronicles 5.14: 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

1 Chronicles 5.15: 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.

1 Chronicles 5.16: 16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.

1 Chronicles 5.17: 17 All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

1 Chronicles 5.18: 18 The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.

1 Chronicles 5.19: 19 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.

1 Chronicles 5.20: 20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

1 Chronicles 5.21: 21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

1 Chronicles 5.22: 22 For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.

1 Chronicles 5.23: 23 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.

1 Chronicles 5.24: 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.

1 Chronicles 5.25: 25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 5.26: 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

1 Chronicles 6.3: 3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 6.4: 4 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,

1 Chronicles 6.5: 5 Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi.

1 Chronicles 6.6: 6 Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth.

1 Chronicles 6.7: 7 Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.

1 Chronicles 6.8: 8 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz.

1 Chronicles 6.9: 9 Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan.

1 Chronicles 6.10: 10 Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 6.11: 11 Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.

1 Chronicles 6.12: 12 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum.

1 Chronicles 6.13: 13 Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah.

1 Chronicles 6.14: 14 Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.

1 Chronicles 6.15: 15 Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

1 Chronicles 6.17: 17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 6.19: 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

1 Chronicles 6.20: 20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

1 Chronicles 6.21: 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son.

1 Chronicles 6.22: 22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

1 Chronicles 6.24: 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

1 Chronicles 6.26: 26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son,

1 Chronicles 6.28: 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.

1 Chronicles 6.29: 29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

1 Chronicles 6.31: 31 These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.

1 Chronicles 6.32: 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.

1 Chronicles 6.33: 33 These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

1 Chronicles 6.34: 34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

1 Chronicles 6.35: 35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

1 Chronicles 6.36: 36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

1 Chronicles 6.37: 37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

1 Chronicles 6.38: 38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

1 Chronicles 6.39: 39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

1 Chronicles 6.40: 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

1 Chronicles 6.44: 44 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

1 Chronicles 6.45: 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

1 Chronicles 6.47: 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

1 Chronicles 6.48: 48 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.

1 Chronicles 6.49: 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

1 Chronicles 6.50: 50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

1 Chronicles 6.54: 54 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),

1 Chronicles 6.55: 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;

1 Chronicles 6.56: 56 but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

1 Chronicles 6.57: 57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.58: 58 Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.59: 59 Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.60: 60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

1 Chronicles 6.61: 61 To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

1 Chronicles 6.62: 62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

1 Chronicles 6.63: 63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

1 Chronicles 6.64: 64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

1 Chronicles 6.65: 65 They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

1 Chronicles 6.66: 66 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.

1 Chronicles 6.67: 67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.68: 68 Jokmeam with its pasture lands, Beth Horon with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.69: 69 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.70: 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

1 Chronicles 6.71: 71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.72: 72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.73: 73 Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.74: 74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.75: 75 Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.76: 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.

1 Chronicles 6.77: 77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.78: 78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, and Jahzah with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.79: 79 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands;

1 Chronicles 6.80: 80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

1 Chronicles 6.81: 81 Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.

1 Chronicles 7.1: 7Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

1 Chronicles 7.2: 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

1 Chronicles 7.3: 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

1 Chronicles 7.4: 4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

1 Chronicles 7.5: 5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.

1 Chronicles 7.7: 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

1 Chronicles 7.8: 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

1 Chronicles 7.9: 9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

1 Chronicles 7.10: 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

1 Chronicles 7.11: 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

1 Chronicles 7.12: 12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.

1 Chronicles 7.13: 13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.

1 Chronicles 7.14: 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 7.15: 15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.

1 Chronicles 7.16: 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

1 Chronicles 7.17: 17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

1 Chronicles 7.19: 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

1 Chronicles 7.20: 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

1 Chronicles 7.21: 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.

1 Chronicles 7.22: 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7.23: 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah,1 because there was trouble with his house.

1 Chronicles 7.24: 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

1 Chronicles 7.25: 25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,

1 Chronicles 7.28: 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

1 Chronicles 7.29: 29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.

1 Chronicles 7.30: 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.

1 Chronicles 7.31: 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

1 Chronicles 7.32: 32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.

1 Chronicles 7.33: 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

1 Chronicles 7.35: 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

1 Chronicles 7.40: 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.

1 Chronicles 8.1: 8Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,

1 Chronicles 8.6: 6 These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:

1 Chronicles 8.7: 7 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

1 Chronicles 8.8: 8 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.

1 Chronicles 8.9: 9 By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,

1 Chronicles 8.10: 10 Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.

1 Chronicles 8.12: 12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

1 Chronicles 8.13: 13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;

1 Chronicles 8.28: 28 These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 8.29: 29 The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,

1 Chronicles 8.32: 32 Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.

1 Chronicles 8.33: 33 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

1 Chronicles 8.34: 34 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

1 Chronicles 8.36: 36 Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.

1 Chronicles 8.37: 37 Moza became the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.

1 Chronicles 8.38: 38 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

1 Chronicles 8.39: 39 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

1 Chronicles 8.40: 40 The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

1 Chronicles 9.1: 9So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold,1 they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.

1 Chronicles 9.2: 2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.

1 Chronicles 9.3: 3 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:

1 Chronicles 9.4: 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.

1 Chronicles 9.6: 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.

1 Chronicles 9.7: 7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,

1 Chronicles 9.8: 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

1 Chronicles 9.9: 9 and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.

1 Chronicles 9.11: 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;

1 Chronicles 9.12: 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

1 Chronicles 9.13: 13 and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.

1 Chronicles 9.14: 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

1 Chronicles 9.15: 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,

1 Chronicles 9.16: 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

1 Chronicles 9.17: 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),

1 Chronicles 9.18: 18 who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.

1 Chronicles 9.19: 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

1 Chronicles 9.20: 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.

1 Chronicles 9.21: 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting.

1 Chronicles 9.22: 22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.

1 Chronicles 9.23: 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.

1 Chronicles 9.24: 24 On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.

1 Chronicles 9.25: 25 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

1 Chronicles 9.26: 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.

1 Chronicles 9.27: 27 They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.

1 Chronicles 9.28: 28 Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.

1 Chronicles 9.29: 29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

1 Chronicles 9.30: 30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.

1 Chronicles 9.31: 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.

1 Chronicles 9.32: 32 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.

1 Chronicles 9.33: 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

1 Chronicles 9.34: 34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 9.35: 35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with

1 Chronicles 9.38: 38 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.

1 Chronicles 9.39: 39 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

1 Chronicles 9.40: 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

1 Chronicles 9.42: 42 Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.

1 Chronicles 9.43: 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.

1 Chronicles 9.44: 44 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

1 Chronicles 10.1: 10Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

1 Chronicles 10.2: 2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

1 Chronicles 10.3: 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.

1 Chronicles 10.4: 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.”

But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

1 Chronicles 10.5: 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.

1 Chronicles 10.6: 6 So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.

1 Chronicles 10.7: 7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

1 Chronicles 10.8: 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

1 Chronicles 10.9: 9 They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.

1 Chronicles 10.10: 10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

1 Chronicles 10.11: 11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Chronicles 10.12: 12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

1 Chronicles 10.13: 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

1 Chronicles 10.14: 14 and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

1 Chronicles 11.1: 11Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

1 Chronicles 11.2: 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”

1 Chronicles 11.3: 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.

1 Chronicles 11.4: 4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

1 Chronicles 11.5: 5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.

1 Chronicles 11.6: 6 David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

1 Chronicles 11.7: 7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.

1 Chronicles 11.8: 8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

1 Chronicles 11.9: 9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.

1 Chronicles 11.10: 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word concerning Israel.

1 Chronicles 11.11: 11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.

1 Chronicles 11.12: 12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.

1 Chronicles 11.13: 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

1 Chronicles 11.14: 14 They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.

1 Chronicles 11.15: 15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

1 Chronicles 11.16: 16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.

1 Chronicles 11.17: 17 David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

1 Chronicles 11.18: 18 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,

1 Chronicles 11.19: 19 and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

1 Chronicles 11.20: 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

1 Chronicles 11.21: 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.

1 Chronicles 11.22: 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

1 Chronicles 11.23: 23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits1 high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

1 Chronicles 11.24: 24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.

1 Chronicles 11.25: 25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.

1 Chronicles 11.26: 26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

1 Chronicles 11.28: 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

1 Chronicles 11.30: 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

1 Chronicles 11.31: 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

1 Chronicles 11.34: 34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,

1 Chronicles 11.35: 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

1 Chronicles 11.39: 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

1 Chronicles 11.42: 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

1 Chronicles 11.44: 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

1 Chronicles 11.45: 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

1 Chronicles 11.46: 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

1 Chronicles 12.1: 12Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

1 Chronicles 12.2: 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.

1 Chronicles 12.3: 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;

1 Chronicles 12.4: 4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;

1 Chronicles 12.5: 5 Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;

1 Chronicles 12.6: 6 Elkanah, Isshiah Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

1 Chronicles 12.8: 8 Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:

1 Chronicles 12.14: 14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.

1 Chronicles 12.15: 15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.

1 Chronicles 12.16: 16 Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

1 Chronicles 12.17: 17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”

1 Chronicles 12.18: 18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

1 Chronicles 12.19: 19 Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”

1 Chronicles 12.20: 20 As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.

1 Chronicles 12.21: 21 They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.

1 Chronicles 12.22: 22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.

1 Chronicles 12.23: 23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to Yahweh’s word.

1 Chronicles 12.24: 24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.

1 Chronicles 12.25: 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.

1 Chronicles 12.27: 27 Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,

1 Chronicles 12.28: 28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.

1 Chronicles 12.29: 29 Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.

1 Chronicles 12.30: 30 Of the children of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.

1 Chronicles 12.31: 31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.

1 Chronicles 12.32: 32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.

1 Chronicles 12.33: 33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

1 Chronicles 12.34: 34 Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.

1 Chronicles 12.35: 35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

1 Chronicles 12.36: 36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.

1 Chronicles 12.37: 37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.

1 Chronicles 12.38: 38 All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

1 Chronicles 12.39: 39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.

1 Chronicles 12.40: 40 Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

1 Chronicles 13.1: 13David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

1 Chronicles 13.2: 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.

1 Chronicles 13.3: 3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”

1 Chronicles 13.4: 4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

1 Chronicles 13.5: 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.

1 Chronicles 13.6: 6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.

1 Chronicles 13.7: 7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

1 Chronicles 13.8: 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

1 Chronicles 13.9: 9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.

1 Chronicles 13.10: 10 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.

1 Chronicles 13.11: 11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.

1 Chronicles 13.12: 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”

1 Chronicles 13.13: 13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

1 Chronicles 13.14: 14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.

1 Chronicles 14.1: 14Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

1 Chronicles 14.2: 2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.

1 Chronicles 14.3: 3 David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles 14.4: 4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

1 Chronicles 14.8: 8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.

1 Chronicles 14.9: 9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

1 Chronicles 14.10: 10 David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”

1 Chronicles 14.11: 11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.1

1 Chronicles 14.12: 12 They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.

1 Chronicles 14.14: 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.

1 Chronicles 14.15: 15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

1 Chronicles 14.16: 16 David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

1 Chronicles 14.17: 17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.

1 Chronicles 15.1: 15David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.

1 Chronicles 15.2: 2 Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”

1 Chronicles 15.3: 3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 15.5: 5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;

1 Chronicles 15.6: 6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;

1 Chronicles 15.7: 7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;

1 Chronicles 15.8: 8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;

1 Chronicles 15.9: 9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;

1 Chronicles 15.10: 10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.

1 Chronicles 15.11: 11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,

1 Chronicles 15.12: 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 15.13: 13 For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”

1 Chronicles 15.14: 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 15.15: 15 The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.

1 Chronicles 15.16: 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

1 Chronicles 15.17: 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

1 Chronicles 15.18: 18 and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.

1 Chronicles 15.19: 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;

1 Chronicles 15.20: 20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;

1 Chronicles 15.21: 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.

1 Chronicles 15.22: 22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.

1 Chronicles 15.24: 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

1 Chronicles 15.25: 25 So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

1 Chronicles 15.26: 26 When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

1 Chronicles 15.27: 27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.

1 Chronicles 15.28: 28 Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

1 Chronicles 15.29: 29 As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

1 Chronicles 16.1: 16They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

1 Chronicles 16.2: 2 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.

1 Chronicles 16.3: 3 He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

1 Chronicles 16.4: 4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

1 Chronicles 16.5: 5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;

1 Chronicles 16.6: 6 with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Chronicles 16.7: 7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

1 Chronicles 16.33: 33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,

1 Chronicles 16.37: 37 So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;

1 Chronicles 16.38: 38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;

1 Chronicles 16.39: 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,

1 Chronicles 16.40: 40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;

1 Chronicles 16.41: 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;

1 Chronicles 16.42: 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

1 Chronicles 16.43: 43 All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

1 Chronicles 17.1: 17When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”

1 Chronicles 17.2: 2 Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”

1 Chronicles 17.4: 4 “Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;

1 Chronicles 17.5: 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.

1 Chronicles 17.6: 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’

1 Chronicles 17.7: 7 “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.

1 Chronicles 17.8: 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

1 Chronicles 17.9: 9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,

1 Chronicles 17.10: 10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

1 Chronicles 17.11: 11 It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

1 Chronicles 17.12: 12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

1 Chronicles 17.13: 13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

1 Chronicles 17.14: 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”

1 Chronicles 17.15: 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

1 Chronicles 17.16: 16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

1 Chronicles 17.17: 17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

1 Chronicles 17.18: 18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

1 Chronicles 17.19: 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

1 Chronicles 17.20: 20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

1 Chronicles 17.21: 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

1 Chronicles 17.22: 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

1 Chronicles 17.23: 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

1 Chronicles 17.24: 24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’

1 Chronicles 17.25: 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

1 Chronicles 17.26: 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.

1 Chronicles 17.27: 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

1 Chronicles 18.1: 18After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

1 Chronicles 18.2: 2 He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

1 Chronicles 18.3: 3 David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

1 Chronicles 18.4: 4 David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.

1 Chronicles 18.5: 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

1 Chronicles 18.6: 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

1 Chronicles 18.7: 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 18.8: 8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze.

1 Chronicles 18.9: 9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

1 Chronicles 18.10: 10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.

1 Chronicles 18.11: 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

1 Chronicles 18.12: 12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1 Chronicles 18.13: 13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

1 Chronicles 18.14: 14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

1 Chronicles 18.15: 15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

1 Chronicles 18.16: 16 Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; Shavsha was scribe;

1 Chronicles 18.17: 17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials serving the king.

1 Chronicles 19.1: 19After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 19.2: 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”

So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 19.3: 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

1 Chronicles 19.4: 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

1 Chronicles 19.5: 5 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

1 Chronicles 19.6: 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents1 of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

1 Chronicles 19.7: 7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

1 Chronicles 19.8: 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.

1 Chronicles 19.9: 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

1 Chronicles 19.10: 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

1 Chronicles 19.11: 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

1 Chronicles 19.12: 12 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

1 Chronicles 19.13: 13 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”

1 Chronicles 19.14: 14 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

1 Chronicles 19.15: 15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 19.16: 16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River,2 with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.

1 Chronicles 19.17: 17 David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

1 Chronicles 19.18: 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.

1 Chronicles 19.19: 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.

1 Chronicles 20.1: 20At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

1 Chronicles 20.2: 2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold,1 and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.

1 Chronicles 20.3: 3 He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 20.4: 4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.

1 Chronicles 20.5: 5 Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

1 Chronicles 20.6: 6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.

1 Chronicles 20.7: 7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.

1 Chronicles 20.8: 8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

1 Chronicles 21.1: 21Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21.2: 2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”

1 Chronicles 21.3: 3 Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”

1 Chronicles 21.4: 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21.5: 5 Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.

1 Chronicles 21.6: 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

1 Chronicles 21.7: 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

1 Chronicles 21.8: 8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

1 Chronicles 21.10: 10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

1 Chronicles 21.11: 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:

1 Chronicles 21.12: 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”

1 Chronicles 21.13: 13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

1 Chronicles 21.14: 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

1 Chronicles 21.15: 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21.16: 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21.17: 17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

1 Chronicles 21.18: 18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21.19: 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.

1 Chronicles 21.20: 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

1 Chronicles 21.21: 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

1 Chronicles 21.22: 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

1 Chronicles 21.23: 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”

1 Chronicles 21.24: 24 King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”

1 Chronicles 21.25: 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels1 of gold by weight for the place.

1 Chronicles 21.26: 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 21.27: 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

1 Chronicles 21.28: 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

1 Chronicles 21.29: 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

1 Chronicles 21.30: 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

1 Chronicles 22.1: 22Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

1 Chronicles 22.2: 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.

1 Chronicles 22.3: 3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight;

1 Chronicles 22.4: 4 and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.

1 Chronicles 22.5: 5 David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.

1 Chronicles 22.6: 6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 22.7: 7 David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

1 Chronicles 22.8: 8 But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

1 Chronicles 22.9: 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

1 Chronicles 22.10: 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

1 Chronicles 22.11: 11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

1 Chronicles 22.12: 12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

1 Chronicles 22.13: 13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

1 Chronicles 22.14: 14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents1 of gold, one million talents2 of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.

1 Chronicles 22.15: 15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;

1 Chronicles 22.16: 16 of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”

1 Chronicles 22.17: 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

1 Chronicles 22.18: 18 “Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.

1 Chronicles 22.19: 19 Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

1 Chronicles 23.1: 23Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 23.2: 2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

1 Chronicles 23.3: 3 The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

1 Chronicles 23.4: 4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

1 Chronicles 23.5: 5 four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”

1 Chronicles 23.6: 6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 23.8: 8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.

1 Chronicles 23.9: 9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.

1 Chronicles 23.10: 10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

1 Chronicles 23.11: 11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.

1 Chronicles 23.12: 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

1 Chronicles 23.13: 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

1 Chronicles 23.14: 14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

1 Chronicles 23.17: 17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

1 Chronicles 23.19: 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

1 Chronicles 23.20: 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

1 Chronicles 23.21: 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

1 Chronicles 23.22: 22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.

1 Chronicles 23.24: 24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

1 Chronicles 23.25: 25 For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

1 Chronicles 23.26: 26 Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”

1 Chronicles 23.27: 27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

1 Chronicles 23.28: 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;

1 Chronicles 23.29: 29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;

1 Chronicles 23.30: 30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;

1 Chronicles 23.31: 31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;

1 Chronicles 23.32: 32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.

1 Chronicles 24.1: 24These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 24.2: 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

1 Chronicles 24.3: 3 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.

1 Chronicles 24.4: 4 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.

1 Chronicles 24.5: 5 Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 24.6: 6 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 24.7: 7 Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

1 Chronicles 24.18: 18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.

1 Chronicles 24.19: 19 This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

1 Chronicles 24.20: 20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

1 Chronicles 24.22: 22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.

1 Chronicles 24.23: 23 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

1 Chronicles 24.25: 25 The brother of Micah: Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

1 Chronicles 24.26: 26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

1 Chronicles 24.27: 27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.

1 Chronicles 24.30: 30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.

1 Chronicles 24.31: 31 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

1 Chronicles 25.1: 25Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:

1 Chronicles 25.2: 2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.

1 Chronicles 25.3: 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.

1 Chronicles 25.4: 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.

1 Chronicles 25.5: 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

1 Chronicles 25.6: 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.

1 Chronicles 25.7: 7 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.

1 Chronicles 25.8: 8 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.

1 Chronicles 25.9: 9 Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons were twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.12: 12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.14: 14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.15: 15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.16: 16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.18: 18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.19: 19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.20: 20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.21: 21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.22: 22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.23: 23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.24: 24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.25: 25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.26: 26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.27: 27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.28: 28 for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.29: 29 for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.30: 30 for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1 Chronicles 25.31: 31 for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.

1 Chronicles 26.1: 26For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

1 Chronicles 26.2: 2 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

1 Chronicles 26.3: 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.

1 Chronicles 26.4: 4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

1 Chronicles 26.5: 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

1 Chronicles 26.6: 6 Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.

1 Chronicles 26.7: 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

1 Chronicles 26.8: 8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

1 Chronicles 26.10: 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

1 Chronicles 26.11: 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.

1 Chronicles 26.12: 12 Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.

1 Chronicles 26.13: 13 They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

1 Chronicles 26.14: 14 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

1 Chronicles 26.16: 16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.

1 Chronicles 26.17: 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.

1 Chronicles 26.18: 18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

1 Chronicles 26.19: 19 These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

1 Chronicles 26.20: 20 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

1 Chronicles 26.21: 21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.

1 Chronicles 26.22: 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s house.

1 Chronicles 26.23: 23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:

1 Chronicles 26.24: 24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.

1 Chronicles 26.25: 25 His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.

1 Chronicles 26.26: 26 This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.

1 Chronicles 26.27: 27 They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.

1 Chronicles 26.28: 28 All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.

1 Chronicles 26.29: 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

1 Chronicles 26.30: 30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.

1 Chronicles 26.31: 31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 26.32: 32 His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.

1 Chronicles 27.1: 27Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.2: 2 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.3: 3 He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.

1 Chronicles 27.4: 4 Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.5: 5 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.6: 6 This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.

1 Chronicles 27.7: 7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.8: 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.9: 9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.10: 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.11: 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.12: 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.13: 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.14: 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.15: 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.

1 Chronicles 27.16: 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

1 Chronicles 27.18: 18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

1 Chronicles 27.19: 19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;

1 Chronicles 27.20: 20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;

1 Chronicles 27.21: 21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;

1 Chronicles 27.22: 22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

1 Chronicles 27.23: 23 But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

1 Chronicles 27.24: 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

1 Chronicles 27.25: 25 Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;

1 Chronicles 27.26: 26 Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;

1 Chronicles 27.27: 27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;

1 Chronicles 27.28: 28 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;

1 Chronicles 27.29: 29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;

1 Chronicles 27.30: 30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

1 Chronicles 27.31: 31 All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.

1 Chronicles 27.32: 32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.

1 Chronicles 27.33: 33 Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

1 Chronicles 27.34: 34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.

1 Chronicles 28.1: 28David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 28.2: 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.

1 Chronicles 28.3: 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’

1 Chronicles 28.4: 4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

1 Chronicles 28.5: 5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.

1 Chronicles 28.6: 6 He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

1 Chronicles 28.7: 7 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’

1 Chronicles 28.8: 8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

1 Chronicles 28.9: 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

1 Chronicles 28.10: 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

1 Chronicles 28.11: 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;

1 Chronicles 28.12: 12 and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;

1 Chronicles 28.13: 13 also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house;

1 Chronicles 28.14: 14 of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;

1 Chronicles 28.15: 15 by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;

1 Chronicles 28.16: 16 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;

1 Chronicles 28.17: 17 and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;

1 Chronicles 28.18: 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.

1 Chronicles 28.19: 19 “All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”

1 Chronicles 28.20: 20 David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

1 Chronicles 28.21: 21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”

1 Chronicles 29.1: 29David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

1 Chronicles 29.2: 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

1 Chronicles 29.3: 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

1 Chronicles 29.4: 4 even three thousand talents of gold,1 of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents2 of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;

1 Chronicles 29.5: 5 of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”

1 Chronicles 29.6: 6 Then the princes of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;

1 Chronicles 29.7: 7 and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents3 and ten thousand darics,4 of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.

1 Chronicles 29.8: 8 People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

1 Chronicles 29.9: 9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

1 Chronicles 29.10: 10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

1 Chronicles 29.11: 11 Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

1 Chronicles 29.12: 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

1 Chronicles 29.13: 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.

1 Chronicles 29.14: 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

1 Chronicles 29.15: 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

1 Chronicles 29.16: 16 Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.

1 Chronicles 29.17: 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

1 Chronicles 29.18: 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

1 Chronicles 29.19: 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

1 Chronicles 29.20: 20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!”

All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.

1 Chronicles 29.21: 21 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,

1 Chronicles 29.22: 22 and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

1 Chronicles 29.23: 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

1 Chronicles 29.24: 24 All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

1 Chronicles 29.25: 25 Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

1 Chronicles 29.27: 27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 29.28: 28 He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 29.29: 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

1 Chronicles 29.30: 30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

2 Chronicles 1.1: 1Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and Yahweh 1 his God2 was with him, and made him exceedingly great.

2 Chronicles 1.2: 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

2 Chronicles 1.3: 3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which Yahweh’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 1.4: 4 But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 1.5: 5 Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before Yahweh’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.

2 Chronicles 1.6: 6 Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.

2 Chronicles 1.7: 7 That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”

2 Chronicles 1.8: 8 Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

2 Chronicles 1.9: 9 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

2 Chronicles 1.10: 10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

2 Chronicles 1.11: 11 God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

2 Chronicles 1.12: 12 therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

2 Chronicles 1.13: 13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

2 Chronicles 1.14: 14 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 1.15: 15 The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

2 Chronicles 1.16: 16 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.

2 Chronicles 1.17: 17 They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty.3 They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian4 kings.

2 Chronicles 2.1: 2Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.

2 Chronicles 2.2: 2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

2 Chronicles 2.3: 3 Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me.

2 Chronicles 2.4: 4 Behold,1 I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

2 Chronicles 2.5: 5 “The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

2 Chronicles 2.6: 6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

2 Chronicles 2.7: 7 “Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

2 Chronicles 2.8: 8 “Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,

2 Chronicles 2.9: 9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

2 Chronicles 2.10: 10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors2 of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths3 of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

2 Chronicles 2.11: 11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.”

2 Chronicles 2.12: 12 Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

2 Chronicles 2.13: 13 Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

2 Chronicles 2.14: 14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

2 Chronicles 2.15: 15 “Now therefore the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;

2 Chronicles 2.16: 16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 2.17: 17 Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

2 Chronicles 2.18: 18 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.

2 Chronicles 3.1: 3Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 3.2: 2 He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 3.3: 3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house. The length by cubits1 after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

2 Chronicles 3.4: 4 The porch that was in front, its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 3.5: 5 He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

2 Chronicles 3.6: 6 He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

2 Chronicles 3.7: 7 He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

2 Chronicles 3.8: 8 He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.2

2 Chronicles 3.9: 9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels3 of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

2 Chronicles 3.10: 10 In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving; and they overlaid them with gold.

2 Chronicles 3.11: 11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

2 Chronicles 3.12: 12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

2 Chronicles 3.13: 13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

2 Chronicles 3.14: 14 He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

2 Chronicles 3.15: 15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

2 Chronicles 3.16: 16 He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

2 Chronicles 3.17: 17 He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

2 Chronicles 4.1: 4Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits1 long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

2 Chronicles 4.2: 2 Also he made the molten sea2 of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.

2 Chronicles 4.3: 3 Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

2 Chronicles 4.4: 4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

2 Chronicles 4.5: 5 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.3

2 Chronicles 4.6: 6 He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

2 Chronicles 4.7: 7 He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

2 Chronicles 4.8: 8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.

2 Chronicles 4.9: 9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

2 Chronicles 4.10: 10 He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

2 Chronicles 4.12: 12 the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,

2 Chronicles 4.13: 13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.

2 Chronicles 4.14: 14 He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases;

2 Chronicles 4.16: 16 Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze.

2 Chronicles 4.17: 17 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

2 Chronicles 4.18: 18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

2 Chronicles 4.19: 19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;

2 Chronicles 4.20: 20 and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;

2 Chronicles 4.21: 21 and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold;

2 Chronicles 4.22: 22 and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.

2 Chronicles 5.1: 5Thus all the work that Solomon did for Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house.

2 Chronicles 5.2: 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

2 Chronicles 5.3: 3 So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 5.5: 5 and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the Levitical priests brought up.

2 Chronicles 5.6: 6 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

2 Chronicles 5.7: 7 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

2 Chronicles 5.8: 8 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

2 Chronicles 5.9: 9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day.

2 Chronicles 5.10: 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 5.11: 11 When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;

2 Chronicles 5.12: 12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);

2 Chronicles 5.13: 13 when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying,

2 Chronicles 5.14: 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.

2 Chronicles 6.1: 6Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

2 Chronicles 6.2: 2 But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

2 Chronicles 6.3: 3 The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

2 Chronicles 6.4: 4 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,

2 Chronicles 6.5: 5 ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;

2 Chronicles 6.6: 6 but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 6.7: 7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6.8: 8 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;

2 Chronicles 6.9: 9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

2 Chronicles 6.10: 10 “Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6.11: 11 There I have set the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”

2 Chronicles 6.12: 12 He stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands

2 Chronicles 6.13: 13 (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits1 long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven)

2 Chronicles 6.14: 14 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

2 Chronicles 6.15: 15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

2 Chronicles 6.16: 16 “Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

2 Chronicles 6.17: 17 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.

2 Chronicles 6.18: 18 “But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

2 Chronicles 6.19: 19 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

2 Chronicles 6.20: 20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6.21: 21 Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

2 Chronicles 6.22: 22 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

2 Chronicles 6.23: 23 then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 6.24: 24 “If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

2 Chronicles 6.25: 25 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

2 Chronicles 6.26: 26 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them;

2 Chronicles 6.27: 27 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 6.28: 28 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

2 Chronicles 6.29: 29 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;

2 Chronicles 6.30: 30 then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)

2 Chronicles 6.31: 31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

2 Chronicles 6.32: 32 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they come and pray toward this house;

2 Chronicles 6.33: 33 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

2 Chronicles 6.34: 34 “If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

2 Chronicles 6.35: 35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

2 Chronicles 6.36: 36 “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

2 Chronicles 6.37: 37 yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’

2 Chronicles 6.38: 38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

2 Chronicles 6.39: 39 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

2 Chronicles 6.40: 40 “Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 6.41: 41 “Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

2 Chronicles 6.42: 42 “Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

2 Chronicles 7.1: 7Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house.

2 Chronicles 7.2: 2 The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 7.3: 3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying,

2 Chronicles 7.4: 4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 7.5: 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house.

2 Chronicles 7.6: 6 The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

2 Chronicles 7.7: 7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahweh’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat.

2 Chronicles 7.8: 8 So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 7.9: 9 On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

2 Chronicles 7.10: 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

2 Chronicles 7.11: 11 Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s house and in his own house.

2 Chronicles 7.12: 12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7.13: 13 “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

2 Chronicles 7.14: 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7.15: 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 7.16: 16 For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

2 Chronicles 7.17: 17 “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

2 Chronicles 7.18: 18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7.19: 19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

2 Chronicles 7.20: 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7.21: 21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’

2 Chronicles 7.22: 22 They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’”

2 Chronicles 8.1: 8At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,

2 Chronicles 8.2: 2 Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

2 Chronicles 8.4: 4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.

2 Chronicles 8.5: 5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

2 Chronicles 8.6: 6 and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

2 Chronicles 8.7: 7 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;

2 Chronicles 8.8: 8 of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.

2 Chronicles 8.9: 9 But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

2 Chronicles 8.10: 10 These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

2 Chronicles 8.11: 11 Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”

2 Chronicles 8.12: 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,

2 Chronicles 8.13: 13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths.1

2 Chronicles 8.14: 14 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.

2 Chronicles 8.15: 15 They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

2 Chronicles 8.16: 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.

2 Chronicles 8.17: 17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 8.18: 18 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents2 of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.1: 9When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

2 Chronicles 9.2: 2 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

2 Chronicles 9.3: 3 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

2 Chronicles 9.4: 4 the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.1

2 Chronicles 9.5: 5 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9.6: 6 However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard!

2 Chronicles 9.7: 7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9.8: 8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

2 Chronicles 9.9: 9 She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents2 of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.10: 10 The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees3 and precious stones.

2 Chronicles 9.11: 11 The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.

2 Chronicles 9.12: 12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

2 Chronicles 9.13: 13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents4 of gold,

2 Chronicles 9.14: 14 in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.15: 15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels5 of beaten gold went to one buckler.

2 Chronicles 9.16: 16 He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels6 of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 9.17: 17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 9.18: 18 There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

2 Chronicles 9.19: 19 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom.

2 Chronicles 9.20: 20 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.21: 21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

2 Chronicles 9.22: 22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9.23: 23 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

2 Chronicles 9.24: 24 They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.

2 Chronicles 9.25: 25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 9.26: 26 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 9.27: 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

2 Chronicles 9.28: 28 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.

2 Chronicles 9.29: 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

2 Chronicles 9.31: 31 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 10.1: 10Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

2 Chronicles 10.2: 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 10.3: 3 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

2 Chronicles 10.4: 4 “Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

2 Chronicles 10.6: 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 10.7: 7 They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

2 Chronicles 10.8: 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

2 Chronicles 10.9: 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

2 Chronicles 10.10: 10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

2 Chronicles 10.11: 11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

2 Chronicles 10.12: 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

2 Chronicles 10.13: 13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,

2 Chronicles 10.14: 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles 10.15: 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 10.16: 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

2 Chronicles 10.17: 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

2 Chronicles 10.18: 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 11.1: 11When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 11.2: 2 But Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

2 Chronicles 11.3: 3 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

2 Chronicles 11.4: 4 ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 11.5: 5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

2 Chronicles 11.10: 10 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

2 Chronicles 11.11: 11 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.

2 Chronicles 11.12: 12 He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

2 Chronicles 11.13: 13 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory.

2 Chronicles 11.14: 14 For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 11.15: 15 He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

2 Chronicles 11.16: 16 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 11.17: 17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

2 Chronicles 11.18: 18 Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.

2 Chronicles 11.20: 20 After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

2 Chronicles 11.21: 21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

2 Chronicles 11.22: 22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.

2 Chronicles 11.23: 23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.

2 Chronicles 12.1: 12When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.

2 Chronicles 12.2: 2 In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,

2 Chronicles 12.3: 3 with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

2 Chronicles 12.4: 4 He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 12.5: 5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Yahweh says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”

2 Chronicles 12.6: 6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

2 Chronicles 12.7: 7 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12.8: 8 Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

2 Chronicles 12.9: 9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

2 Chronicles 12.10: 10 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

2 Chronicles 12.11: 11 As often as the king entered into Yahweh’s house, the guard came and bore them, then brought them back into the guard room.

2 Chronicles 12.12: 12 When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.

2 Chronicles 12.13: 13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 12.14: 14 He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 12.15: 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

2 Chronicles 12.16: 16 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 13.1: 13In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.

2 Chronicles 13.2: 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13.3: 3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 13.4: 4 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

2 Chronicles 13.5: 5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

2 Chronicles 13.6: 6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

2 Chronicles 13.7: 7 Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.

2 Chronicles 13.8: 8 “Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you.

2 Chronicles 13.9: 9 Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods.

2 Chronicles 13.10: 10 “But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work;

2 Chronicles 13.11: 11 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.

2 Chronicles 13.12: 12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

2 Chronicles 13.13: 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

2 Chronicles 13.14: 14 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 13.15: 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2 Chronicles 13.16: 16 The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.

2 Chronicles 13.17: 17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.

2 Chronicles 13.18: 18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 13.19: 19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.

2 Chronicles 13.20: 20 Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.

2 Chronicles 13.21: 21 But Abijah grew mighty, and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 13.22: 22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chronicles 14.1: 14So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days, the land was quiet ten years.

2 Chronicles 14.2: 2 Asa did that which was good and right in Yahweh his God’s eyes;

2 Chronicles 14.3: 3 for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

2 Chronicles 14.4: 4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

2 Chronicles 14.5: 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

2 Chronicles 14.6: 6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.

2 Chronicles 14.7: 7 For he said to Judah, “Let’s build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

2 Chronicles 14.8: 8 Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 14.9: 9 Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 14.10: 10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 14.11: 11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

2 Chronicles 14.12: 12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

2 Chronicles 14.13: 13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.

2 Chronicles 14.14: 14 They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them.

2 Chronicles 14.15: 15 They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 15.2: 2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

2 Chronicles 15.3: 3 Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

2 Chronicles 15.4: 4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

2 Chronicles 15.5: 5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

2 Chronicles 15.6: 6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

2 Chronicles 15.7: 7 But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

2 Chronicles 15.8: 8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.

2 Chronicles 15.9: 9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 15.10: 10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

2 Chronicles 15.11: 11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 15.12: 12 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

2 Chronicles 15.13: 13 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

2 Chronicles 15.14: 14 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.

2 Chronicles 15.15: 15 All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

2 Chronicles 15.16: 16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 15.17: 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 15.18: 18 He brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.

2 Chronicles 15.19: 19 There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

2 Chronicles 16.1: 16In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 16.2: 2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of Yahweh’s house and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

2 Chronicles 16.3: 3 “Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

2 Chronicles 16.4: 4 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 16.5: 5 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.

2 Chronicles 16.6: 6 Then Asa the king took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Rama, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he built Geba and Mizpah with them.

2 Chronicles 16.7: 7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.

2 Chronicles 16.8: 8 Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.

2 Chronicles 16.9: 9 For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

2 Chronicles 16.10: 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

2 Chronicles 16.11: 11 Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16.12: 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

2 Chronicles 16.13: 13 Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 16.14: 14 They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

2 Chronicles 17.1: 17Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.

2 Chronicles 17.2: 2 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

2 Chronicles 17.3: 3 Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 17.4: 4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

2 Chronicles 17.5: 5 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

2 Chronicles 17.6: 6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

2 Chronicles 17.7: 7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

2 Chronicles 17.8: 8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

2 Chronicles 17.9: 9 They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

2 Chronicles 17.10: 10 The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

2 Chronicles 17.11: 11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

2 Chronicles 17.12: 12 Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 17.13: 13 He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 17.14: 14 This was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;

2 Chronicles 17.15: 15 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;

2 Chronicles 17.16: 16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 17.17: 17 From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

2 Chronicles 17.18: 18 and next to him Jehozabad, and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready and prepared for war.

2 Chronicles 17.19: 19 These were those who waited on the king, in addition to those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 18.1: 18Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab.

2 Chronicles 18.2: 2 After some years, he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Chronicles 18.3: 3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?”

He answered him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”

2 Chronicles 18.4: 4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”

2 Chronicles 18.5: 5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?”

2 Chronicles 18.6: 6 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?”

2 Chronicles 18.7: 7 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.”

2 Chronicles 18.8: 8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”

2 Chronicles 18.9: 9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

2 Chronicles 18.10: 10 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

2 Chronicles 18.11: 11 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

2 Chronicles 18.12: 12 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good.”

2 Chronicles 18.13: 13 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what my God says.”

2 Chronicles 18.14: 14 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?”

2 Chronicles 18.15: 15 The king said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

2 Chronicles 18.16: 16 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”

2 Chronicles 18.17: 17 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

2 Chronicles 18.18: 18 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

2 Chronicles 18.19: 19 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.

2 Chronicles 18.20: 20 A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

2 Chronicles 18.21: 21 “He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

2 Chronicles 18.22: 22 “Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

2 Chronicles 18.23: 23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

2 Chronicles 18.24: 24 Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”

2 Chronicles 18.25: 25 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

2 Chronicles 18.26: 26 and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.”’”

2 Chronicles 18.27: 27 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, you people, all of you!”

2 Chronicles 18.28: 28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Chronicles 18.29: 29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

2 Chronicles 18.30: 30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”

2 Chronicles 18.31: 31 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

2 Chronicles 18.32: 32 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

2 Chronicles 18.33: 33 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.”

2 Chronicles 18.34: 34 The battle increased that day. However the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and at about sunset, he died.

2 Chronicles 19.1: 19Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 19.2: 2 Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 19.3: 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

2 Chronicles 19.4: 4 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 19.5: 5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

2 Chronicles 19.6: 6 and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

2 Chronicles 19.7: 7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

2 Chronicles 19.8: 8 Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 19.9: 9 He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

2 Chronicles 19.10: 10 Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

2 Chronicles 19.11: 11 Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

2 Chronicles 20.1: 20After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

2 Chronicles 20.2: 2 Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).

2 Chronicles 20.3: 3 Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20.4: 4 Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 20.5: 5 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;

2 Chronicles 20.6: 6 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

2 Chronicles 20.7: 7 Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring1 of Abraham your friend forever?

2 Chronicles 20.8: 8 They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

2 Chronicles 20.9: 9 ‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’

2 Chronicles 20.10: 10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;

2 Chronicles 20.11: 11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

2 Chronicles 20.12: 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

2 Chronicles 20.13: 13 All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

2 Chronicles 20.14: 14 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the middle of the assembly;

2 Chronicles 20.15: 15 and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

2 Chronicles 20.16: 16 Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2 Chronicles 20.17: 17 You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’”

2 Chronicles 20.18: 18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 20.19: 19 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice.

2 Chronicles 20.20: 20 They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

2 Chronicles 20.21: 21 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

2 Chronicles 20.22: 22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.

2 Chronicles 20.23: 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.

2 Chronicles 20.24: 24 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.

2 Chronicles 20.25: 25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.

2 Chronicles 20.26: 26 On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah2 Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.

2 Chronicles 20.27: 27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

2 Chronicles 20.28: 28 They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 20.29: 29 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.

2 Chronicles 20.30: 30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.

2 Chronicles 20.31: 31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

2 Chronicles 20.32: 32 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.

2 Chronicles 20.33: 33 However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 20.34: 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 20.35: 35 After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.

2 Chronicles 20.36: 36 He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.

2 Chronicles 20.37: 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

2 Chronicles 21.1: 21Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 21.2: 2 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21.3: 3 Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 21.4: 4 Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21.5: 5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21.6: 6 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

2 Chronicles 21.7: 7 However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

2 Chronicles 21.8: 8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

2 Chronicles 21.9: 9 Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.

2 Chronicles 21.10: 10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 21.11: 11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

2 Chronicles 21.12: 12 A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

2 Chronicles 21.13: 13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

2 Chronicles 21.14: 14 behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions;

2 Chronicles 21.15: 15 and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”

2 Chronicles 21.16: 16 Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;

2 Chronicles 21.17: 17 and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2 Chronicles 21.18: 18 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

2 Chronicles 21.19: 19 In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 21.20: 20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 22.1: 22The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

2 Chronicles 22.2: 2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

2 Chronicles 22.3: 3 He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

2 Chronicles 22.4: 4 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 22.5: 5 He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

2 Chronicles 22.6: 6 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

2 Chronicles 22.7: 7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.

2 Chronicles 22.8: 8 When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, serving Ahaziah, and killed them.

2 Chronicles 22.9: 9 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 22.10: 10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

2 Chronicles 22.11: 11 But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

2 Chronicles 22.12: 12 He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

2 Chronicles 23.1: 23In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into a covenant with him.

2 Chronicles 23.2: 2 They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 23.3: 3 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.

2 Chronicles 23.4: 4 This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.

2 Chronicles 23.5: 5 A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 23.6: 6 But let no one come into Yahweh’s house, except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions.

2 Chronicles 23.7: 7 The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”

2 Chronicles 23.8: 8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift.

2 Chronicles 23.9: 9 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.

2 Chronicles 23.10: 10 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king.

2 Chronicles 23.11: 11 Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

2 Chronicles 23.12: 12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 23.13: 13 Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”

2 Chronicles 23.14: 14 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house.”

2 Chronicles 23.15: 15 So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.

2 Chronicles 23.16: 16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.

2 Chronicles 23.17: 17 All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

2 Chronicles 23.18: 18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.

2 Chronicles 23.19: 19 He set the gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.

2 Chronicles 23.20: 20 He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 23.21: 21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.

2 Chronicles 24.1: 24Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.

2 Chronicles 24.2: 2 Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24.3: 3 Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

2 Chronicles 24.5: 5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.

2 Chronicles 24.6: 6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

2 Chronicles 24.7: 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.

2 Chronicles 24.8: 8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 24.9: 9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 24.10: 10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

2 Chronicles 24.11: 11 Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

2 Chronicles 24.12: 12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 24.13: 13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.

2 Chronicles 24.14: 14 When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.

2 Chronicles 24.15: 15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

2 Chronicles 24.16: 16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

2 Chronicles 24.17: 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

2 Chronicles 24.18: 18 They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

2 Chronicles 24.19: 19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

2 Chronicles 24.20: 20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”

2 Chronicles 24.21: 21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 24.22: 22 Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

2 Chronicles 24.23: 23 At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.

2 Chronicles 24.24: 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.

2 Chronicles 24.25: 25 When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 24.26: 26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

2 Chronicles 24.27: 27 Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 25.1: 25Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 25.2: 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.

2 Chronicles 25.3: 3 Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.

2 Chronicles 25.4: 4 But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Chronicles 25.5: 5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25.6: 6 He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents1 of silver.

2 Chronicles 25.7: 7 A man of God came to him, saying, “O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim.

2 Chronicles 25.8: 8 But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

2 Chronicles 25.9: 9 Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents2 which I have given to the army of Israel?”

2 Chronicles 25.10: 10 Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.

2 Chronicles 25.11: 11 Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

2 Chronicles 25.12: 12 The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

2 Chronicles 25.13: 13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much plunder.

2 Chronicles 25.14: 14 Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them.

2 Chronicles 25.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”

2 Chronicles 25.16: 16 As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?”

Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

2 Chronicles 25.17: 17 Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”

2 Chronicles 25.18: 18 Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

2 Chronicles 25.19: 19 You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

2 Chronicles 25.20: 20 But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

2 Chronicles 25.21: 21 So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

2 Chronicles 25.22: 22 Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to his tent.

2 Chronicles 25.23: 23 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.3

2 Chronicles 25.24: 24 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 25.25: 25 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 25.26: 26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

2 Chronicles 25.27: 27 Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

2 Chronicles 25.28: 28 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.

2 Chronicles 26.1: 26All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

2 Chronicles 26.2: 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

2 Chronicles 26.3: 3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 26.4: 4 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

2 Chronicles 26.5: 5 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

2 Chronicles 26.6: 6 He went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 26.7: 7 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.

2 Chronicles 26.8: 8 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceedingly strong.

2 Chronicles 26.9: 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

2 Chronicles 26.10: 10 He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

2 Chronicles 26.11: 11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

2 Chronicles 26.12: 12 The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.

2 Chronicles 26.13: 13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

2 Chronicles 26.14: 14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

2 Chronicles 26.15: 15 In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

2 Chronicles 26.16: 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 26.17: 17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.

2 Chronicles 26.18: 18 They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

2 Chronicles 26.19: 19 Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 26.20: 20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there. Yes, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.

2 Chronicles 26.21: 21 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

2 Chronicles 26.22: 22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote.

2 Chronicles 26.23: 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 27.1: 27Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 27.2: 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into Yahweh’s temple. The people still acted corruptly.

2 Chronicles 27.3: 3 He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.

2 Chronicles 27.4: 4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.

2 Chronicles 27.5: 5 He also fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents1 of silver, ten thousand cors2 of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley.3 The children of Ammon also gave that much to him in the second year, and in the third.

2 Chronicles 27.6: 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

2 Chronicles 27.7: 7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chronicles 27.8: 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 27.9: 9 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 28.1: 28Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, like David his father,

2 Chronicles 28.2: 2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.

2 Chronicles 28.3: 3 Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 28.4: 4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 28.5: 5 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.

2 Chronicles 28.6: 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 28.7: 7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.

2 Chronicles 28.8: 8 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28.9: 9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

2 Chronicles 28.10: 10 Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?

2 Chronicles 28.11: 11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

2 Chronicles 28.12: 12 Then some of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war,

2 Chronicles 28.13: 13 and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

2 Chronicles 28.14: 14 So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly.

2 Chronicles 28.15: 15 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28.16: 16 At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

2 Chronicles 28.17: 17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

2 Chronicles 28.18: 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there.

2 Chronicles 28.19: 19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 28.20: 20 Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.

2 Chronicles 28.21: 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.

2 Chronicles 28.22: 22 In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

2 Chronicles 28.23: 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him. He said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, so I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

2 Chronicles 28.24: 24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 28.25: 25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked Yahweh, the God of his fathers, to anger.

2 Chronicles 28.26: 26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 28.27: 27 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 29.1: 29Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 29.2: 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

2 Chronicles 29.3: 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.

2 Chronicles 29.4: 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,

2 Chronicles 29.5: 5 and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify Yahweh, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.

2 Chronicles 29.6: 6 For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

2 Chronicles 29.7: 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29.8: 8 Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

2 Chronicles 29.9: 9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

2 Chronicles 29.10: 10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

2 Chronicles 29.11: 11 My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”

2 Chronicles 29.12: 12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

2 Chronicles 29.13: 13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

2 Chronicles 29.14: 14 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

2 Chronicles 29.15: 15 They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 29.16: 16 The priests went into the inner part of Yahweh’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court of Yahweh’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 29.17: 17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to Yahweh’s porch. They sanctified Yahweh’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

2 Chronicles 29.18: 18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all Yahweh’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.

2 Chronicles 29.19: 19 Moreover have we prepared and sanctified all the vessels which king Ahaz threw away in his reign, when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”

2 Chronicles 29.20: 20 Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 29.21: 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on Yahweh’s altar.

2 Chronicles 29.22: 22 So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

2 Chronicles 29.23: 23 They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them.

2 Chronicles 29.24: 24 Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

2 Chronicles 29.25: 25 He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.

2 Chronicles 29.26: 26 The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 29.27: 27 Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, Yahweh’s song also began, along with the trumpets and David king of Israel’s instruments.

2 Chronicles 29.28: 28 All the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

2 Chronicles 29.29: 29 When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 29.30: 30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 29.31: 31 Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into Yahweh’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

2 Chronicles 29.32: 32 The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 29.33: 33 The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 29.34: 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

2 Chronicles 29.35: 35 Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of Yahweh’s house was set in order.

2 Chronicles 29.36: 36 Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

2 Chronicles 30.1: 30Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 30.2: 2 For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

2 Chronicles 30.3: 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30.4: 4 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

2 Chronicles 30.5: 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.

2 Chronicles 30.6: 6 So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 30.7: 7 Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

2 Chronicles 30.8: 8 Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 30.9: 9 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

2 Chronicles 30.10: 10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

2 Chronicles 30.11: 11 Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30.12: 12 Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

2 Chronicles 30.13: 13 Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

2 Chronicles 30.14: 14 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 30.15: 15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 30.16: 16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.

2 Chronicles 30.17: 17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 30.18: 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

2 Chronicles 30.19: 19 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

2 Chronicles 30.21: 21 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 30.22: 22 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 30.23: 23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.

2 Chronicles 30.24: 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

2 Chronicles 30.25: 25 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

2 Chronicles 30.26: 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30.27: 27 Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

2 Chronicles 31.1: 31Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2 Chronicles 31.2: 2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.

2 Chronicles 31.3: 3 He also appointed the king’s portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in Yahweh’s law.

2 Chronicles 31.4: 4 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.

2 Chronicles 31.5: 5 As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.

2 Chronicles 31.6: 6 The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them in heaps.

2 Chronicles 31.7: 7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 31.8: 8 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 31.9: 9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

2 Chronicles 31.10: 10 Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

2 Chronicles 31.11: 11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.

2 Chronicles 31.12: 12 They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second.

2 Chronicles 31.13: 13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.

2 Chronicles 31.14: 14 Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east gate, was over the free will offerings of God, to distribute Yahweh’s offerings and the most holy things.

2 Chronicles 31.15: 15 Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, to the great as well as to the small;

2 Chronicles 31.16: 16 in addition to those who were listed by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into Yahweh’s house, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions;

2 Chronicles 31.17: 17 and those who were listed by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;

2 Chronicles 31.18: 18 and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

2 Chronicles 31.19: 19 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the pasture lands of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed by genealogy among the Levites.

2 Chronicles 31.20: 20 Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

2 Chronicles 31.21: 21 In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

2 Chronicles 32.1: 32After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.

2 Chronicles 32.2: 2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,

2 Chronicles 32.3: 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

2 Chronicles 32.4: 4 So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

2 Chronicles 32.5: 5 He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

2 Chronicles 32.6: 6 He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

2 Chronicles 32.7: 7 “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.

2 Chronicles 32.8: 8 An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 32.9: 9 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

2 Chronicles 32.10: 10 Sennacherib king of Assyria says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

2 Chronicles 32.11: 11 Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

2 Chronicles 32.12: 12 Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’

2 Chronicles 32.13: 13 Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

2 Chronicles 32.14: 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

2 Chronicles 32.15: 15 Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

2 Chronicles 32.16: 16 His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 32.17: 17 He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

2 Chronicles 32.18: 18 They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

2 Chronicles 32.19: 19 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

2 Chronicles 32.20: 20 Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

2 Chronicles 32.21: 21 Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body1 killed him there with the sword.

2 Chronicles 32.22: 22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.

2 Chronicles 32.23: 23 Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.

2 Chronicles 32.24: 24 In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

2 Chronicles 32.25: 25 But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 32.26: 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 32.27: 27 Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;

2 Chronicles 32.28: 28 also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.

2 Chronicles 32.29: 29 Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions.

2 Chronicles 32.30: 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

2 Chronicles 32.31: 31 However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

2 Chronicles 32.32: 32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 32.33: 33 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 33.1: 33Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33.3: 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

2 Chronicles 33.4: 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

2 Chronicles 33.5: 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 33.6: 6 He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

2 Chronicles 33.7: 7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

2 Chronicles 33.8: 8 I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”

2 Chronicles 33.9: 9 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33.10: 10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

2 Chronicles 33.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33.12: 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33.13: 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

2 Chronicles 33.14: 14 Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

2 Chronicles 33.15: 15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

2 Chronicles 33.16: 16 He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33.17: 17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

2 Chronicles 33.18: 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33.19: 19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.1

2 Chronicles 33.20: 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 33.21: 21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33.22: 22 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

2 Chronicles 33.23: 23 He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

2 Chronicles 33.24: 24 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33.25: 25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

2 Chronicles 34.1: 34Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.2: 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

2 Chronicles 34.3: 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

2 Chronicles 34.4: 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34.5: 5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.6: 6 He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

2 Chronicles 34.7: 7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.8: 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair Yahweh his God’s house.

2 Chronicles 34.9: 9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.10: 10 They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and the workmen who labored in Yahweh’s house gave it to mend and repair the house.

2 Chronicles 34.11: 11 They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders, to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

2 Chronicles 34.12: 12 The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.

2 Chronicles 34.13: 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.

2 Chronicles 34.14: 14 When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.

2 Chronicles 34.15: 15 Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 34.16: 16 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, “All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.

2 Chronicles 34.17: 17 They have emptied out the money that was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.”

2 Chronicles 34.18: 18 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read from it to the king.

2 Chronicles 34.19: 19 When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34.20: 20 The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

2 Chronicles 34.21: 21 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”

2 Chronicles 34.22: 22 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.

2 Chronicles 34.23: 23 She said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

2 Chronicles 34.24: 24 “Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 34.25: 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’

2 Chronicles 34.26: 26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, you shall tell him this, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says: “About the words which you have heard,

2 Chronicles 34.27: 27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 34.28: 28 “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’”

2 Chronicles 34.29: 29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.30: 30 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 34.31: 31 The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

2 Chronicles 34.32: 32 He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34.33: 33 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 35.1: 35Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 35.2: 2 He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 35.3: 3 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 35.4: 4 Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

2 Chronicles 35.5: 5 Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

2 Chronicles 35.6: 6 Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”

2 Chronicles 35.7: 7 Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.

2 Chronicles 35.8: 8 His princes gave for a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

2 Chronicles 35.9: 9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.

2 Chronicles 35.10: 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.

2 Chronicles 35.11: 11 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites skinned them.

2 Chronicles 35.12: 12 They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.

2 Chronicles 35.13: 13 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

2 Chronicles 35.14: 14 Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35.15: 15 The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

2 Chronicles 35.16: 16 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on Yahweh’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35.17: 17 The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

2 Chronicles 35.18: 18 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 35.19: 19 This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35.20: 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.

2 Chronicles 35.21: 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

2 Chronicles 35.22: 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2 Chronicles 35.23: 23 The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

2 Chronicles 35.24: 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35.25: 25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

2 Chronicles 35.26: 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in Yahweh’s law,

2 Chronicles 35.27: 27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chronicles 36.1: 36Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36.2: 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36.3: 3 The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent1 of gold.

2 Chronicles 36.4: 4 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36.5: 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight.

2 Chronicles 36.6: 6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36.7: 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36.8: 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 36.9: 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

2 Chronicles 36.10: 10 At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36.11: 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36.12: 12 He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.

2 Chronicles 36.13: 13 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36.14: 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36.15: 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;

2 Chronicles 36.16: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 36.17: 17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

2 Chronicles 36.18: 18 All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36.19: 19 They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

2 Chronicles 36.20: 20 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

2 Chronicles 36.21: 21 to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

2 Chronicles 36.22: 22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

2 Chronicles 36.23: 23 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”

Ezra 1.1: 1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s1 word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Ezra 1.2: 2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God2 of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 1.3: 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 1.4: 4 Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”

Ezra 1.5: 5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 1.6: 6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.

Ezra 1.7: 7 Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

Ezra 1.8: 8 even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

Ezra 1.9: 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,

Ezra 1.10: 10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second sort, and one thousand other vessels.

Ezra 1.11: 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezra 2.1: 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.

Ezra 2.6: 6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

Ezra 2.25: 25 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

Ezra 2.31: 31 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Ezra 2.36: 36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

Ezra 2.40: 40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

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 2.55: 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.

Ezra 3.1: 3When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezra 3.2: 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Ezra 3.3: 3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Ezra 3.4: 4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

Ezra 3.5: 5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.

Ezra 3.6: 6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.

Ezra 3.7: 7 They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

Ezra 3.8: 8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.

Ezra 3.9: 9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.

Ezra 3.10: 10 When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3.11: 11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

Ezra 3.12: 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

Ezra 3.13: 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.

Ezra 4.1: 4Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

Ezra 4.2: 2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

Ezra 4.3: 3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

Ezra 4.4: 4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.

Ezra 4.5: 5 They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 4.6: 6 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra 4.7: 7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.

Ezra 4.8: 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,

Ezra 4.9: 9 then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

Ezra 4.10: 10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

Ezra 4.12: 12 Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

Ezra 4.13: 13 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

Ezra 4.14: 14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

Ezra 4.15: 15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

Ezra 4.16: 16 We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.

Ezra 4.17: 17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River:

Ezra 4.19: 19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.

Ezra 4.20: 20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

Ezra 4.21: 21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me.

Ezra 4.22: 22 Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

Ezra 4.23: 23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

Ezra 4.24: 24 Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 5.1: 5Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel.

Ezra 5.2: 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

Ezra 5.3: 3 At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”

Ezra 5.4: 4 They also asked for the names of the men were who were making this building.

Ezra 5.5: 5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

Ezra 5.6: 6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows.

Ezra 5.8: 8 Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

Ezra 5.9: 9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”

Ezra 5.10: 10 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.

Ezra 5.11: 11 Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Ezra 5.12: 12 But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

Ezra 5.13: 13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Ezra 5.14: 14 The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.

Ezra 5.15: 15 He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’

Ezra 5.16: 16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed.

Ezra 5.17: 17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”

Ezra 6.1: 6Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

Ezra 6.2: 2 A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:

Ezra 6.3: 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits,1 and its width sixty cubits;

Ezra 6.4: 4 with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

Ezra 6.5: 5 Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.

Ezra 6.6: 6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.

Ezra 6.7: 7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

Ezra 6.8: 8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.

Ezra 6.9: 9 That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

Ezra 6.10: 10 that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

Ezra 6.11: 11 I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

Ezra 6.12: 12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.

Ezra 6.13: 13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.

Ezra 6.14: 14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

Ezra 6.15: 15 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

Ezra 6.16: 16 The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

Ezra 6.17: 17 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

Ezra 6.18: 18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

Ezra 6.19: 19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Ezra 6.20: 20 Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

Ezra 6.21: 21 The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

Ezra 6.22: 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

Ezra 7.1: 7Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

Ezra 7.5: 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—

Ezra 7.6: 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

Ezra 7.7: 7 Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezra 7.8: 8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

Ezra 7.9: 9 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

Ezra 7.10: 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Ezra 7.11: 11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of Yahweh’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:

Ezra 7.13: 13 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.

Ezra 7.14: 14 Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

Ezra 7.15: 15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

Ezra 7.16: 16 and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

Ezra 7.17: 17 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 7.18: 18 Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.

Ezra 7.19: 19 The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

Ezra 7.20: 20 Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.

Ezra 7.21: 21 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,

Ezra 7.22: 22 up to one hundred talents1 of silver, and to one hundred cors2 of wheat, and to one hundred baths3 of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Ezra 7.23: 23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

Ezra 7.24: 24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.

Ezra 7.25: 25 You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

Ezra 7.26: 26 Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Ezra 7.27: 27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

Ezra 7.28: 28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

Ezra 8.1: 8Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

Ezra 8.3: 3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.

Ezra 8.4: 4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

Ezra 8.5: 5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

Ezra 8.6: 6 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

Ezra 8.7: 7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

Ezra 8.8: 8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

Ezra 8.9: 9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.

Ezra 8.10: 10 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.

Ezra 8.11: 11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

Ezra 8.12: 12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.

Ezra 8.13: 13 Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

Ezra 8.14: 14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

Ezra 8.15: 15 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.

Ezra 8.16: 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

Ezra 8.17: 17 I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

Ezra 8.18: 18 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

Ezra 8.19: 19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

Ezra 8.20: 20 and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name.

Ezra 8.21: 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

Ezra 8.22: 22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Ezra 8.23: 23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

Ezra 8.24: 24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

Ezra 8.25: 25 and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

Ezra 8.26: 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,1 one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,

Ezra 8.27: 27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics;2 and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

Ezra 8.28: 28 I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.

Ezra 8.29: 29 Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”

Ezra 8.30: 30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

Ezra 8.31: 31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

Ezra 8.33: 33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

Ezra 8.34: 34 everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.

Ezra 8.35: 35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.

Ezra 8.36: 36 They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors, and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house.

Ezra 9.1: 9Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9.2: 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

Ezra 9.3: 3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

Ezra 9.4: 4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

Ezra 9.5: 5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

Ezra 9.6: 6 and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Ezra 9.7: 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Ezra 9.8: 8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

Ezra 9.9: 9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Ezra 9.10: 10 “Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

Ezra 9.11: 11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.

Ezra 9.12: 12 Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Ezra 9.13: 13 “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Ezra 9.14: 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?

Ezra 9.15: 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold,1 we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Ezra 10.1: 10Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

Ezra 10.2: 2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Ezra 10.3: 3 Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Ezra 10.4: 4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

Ezra 10.5: 5 Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

Ezra 10.6: 6 Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

Ezra 10.7: 7 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;

Ezra 10.8: 8 and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

Ezra 10.9: 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

Ezra 10.10: 10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

Ezra 10.11: 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

Ezra 10.12: 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.

Ezra 10.13: 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

Ezra 10.14: 14 Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

Ezra 10.15: 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

Ezra 10.16: 16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Ezra 10.17: 17 They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

Ezra 10.18: 18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women:

of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Ezra 10.19: 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Ezra 10.21: 21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

Ezra 10.22: 22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

Ezra 10.23: 23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Ezra 10.24: 24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

Ezra 10.25: 25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

Ezra 10.26: 26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

Ezra 10.27: 27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Ezra 10.29: 29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.

Ezra 10.30: 30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

Ezra 10.31: 31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Ezra 10.33: 33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

Ezra 10.43: 43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

Ezra 10.44: 44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Nehemiah 1.2: 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1.3: 3 They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 1.4: 4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God1 of heaven,

Nehemiah 1.5: 5 and said, “I beg you, Yahweh,2 the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

Nehemiah 1.6: 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

Nehemiah 1.7: 7 We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

Nehemiah 1.8: 8 “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

Nehemiah 1.9: 9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

Nehemiah 1.10: 10 “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.

Nehemiah 1.11: 11 Lord,3 I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

Nehemiah 2.1: 2In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Nehemiah 2.2: 2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”

Nehemiah 2.3: 3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

Nehemiah 2.5: 5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

Nehemiah 2.6: 6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?”

Nehemiah 2.7: 7 Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;

Nehemiah 2.8: 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.”

Nehemiah 2.9: 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

Nehemiah 2.10: 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Nehemiah 2.12: 12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

Nehemiah 2.13: 13 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2.14: 14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

Nehemiah 2.15: 15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Nehemiah 2.16: 16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

Nehemiah 2.17: 17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

Nehemiah 2.18: 18 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.

They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Nehemiah 2.19: 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

Nehemiah 2.20: 20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 3.1: 3Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

Nehemiah 3.2: 2 Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

Nehemiah 3.3: 3 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3.4: 4 Next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.5: 5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.

Nehemiah 3.6: 6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3.7: 7 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor beyond the River.

Nehemiah 3.8: 8 Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.

Nehemiah 3.9: 9 Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.10: 10 Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.11: 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.

Nehemiah 3.12: 12 Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.13: 13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits1 of the wall to the dung gate.

Nehemiah 3.14: 14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3.15: 15 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.

Nehemiah 3.16: 16 After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

Nehemiah 3.17: 17 After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

Nehemiah 3.18: 18 After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.19: 19 Next to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.

Nehemiah 3.20: 20 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Nehemiah 3.21: 21 After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 3.23: 23 After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.

Nehemiah 3.24: 24 After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.

Nehemiah 3.25: 25 Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.26: 26 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

Nehemiah 3.27: 27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.

Nehemiah 3.28: 28 Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone across from his own house.

Nehemiah 3.29: 29 After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.30: 30 After him, Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs across from his room.

Nehemiah 3.31: 31 After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

Nehemiah 3.32: 32 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

Nehemiah 4.1: 4But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

Nehemiah 4.2: 2 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

Nehemiah 4.3: 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

Nehemiah 4.4: 4 “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

Nehemiah 4.5: 5 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

Nehemiah 4.6: 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4.7: 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

Nehemiah 4.8: 8 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

Nehemiah 4.9: 9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

Nehemiah 4.10: 10 Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”

Nehemiah 4.11: 11 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

Nehemiah 4.12: 12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

Nehemiah 4.13: 13 Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Nehemiah 4.14: 14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

Nehemiah 4.15: 15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

Nehemiah 4.16: 16 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Nehemiah 4.17: 17 Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

Nehemiah 4.18: 18 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

Nehemiah 4.19: 19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.

Nehemiah 4.20: 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

Nehemiah 4.21: 21 So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

Nehemiah 4.22: 22 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”

Nehemiah 4.23: 23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.

Nehemiah 5.1: 5Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Nehemiah 5.2: 2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5.3: 3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Nehemiah 5.4: 4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Nehemiah 5.5: 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold,1 we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Nehemiah 5.7: 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

Nehemiah 5.8: 8 I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Nehemiah 5.9: 9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Nehemiah 5.10: 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

Nehemiah 5.11: 11 Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

Nehemiah 5.12: 12 Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.”

Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5.13: 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.”

All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5.14: 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Nehemiah 5.15: 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels2 of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5.16: 16 Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

Nehemiah 5.17: 17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

Nehemiah 5.18: 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

Nehemiah 5.19: 19 Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Nehemiah 6.1: 6Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

Nehemiah 6.2: 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Nehemiah 6.3: 3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6.4: 4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

Nehemiah 6.5: 5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

Nehemiah 6.6: 6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

Nehemiah 6.7: 7 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”

Nehemiah 6.8: 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

Nehemiah 6.9: 9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

Nehemiah 6.10: 10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

Nehemiah 6.11: 11 I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

Nehemiah 6.12: 12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Nehemiah 6.13: 13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Nehemiah 6.14: 14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

Nehemiah 6.15: 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.

Nehemiah 6.16: 16 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

Nehemiah 6.17: 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

Nehemiah 6.18: 18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.

Nehemiah 6.19: 19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

Nehemiah 7.1: 7Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

Nehemiah 7.2: 2 I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

Nehemiah 7.3: 3 I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

Nehemiah 7.4: 4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

Nehemiah 7.5: 5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:

Nehemiah 7.6: 6 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, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,

Nehemiah 7.7: 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.

Nehemiah 7.11: 11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.

Nehemiah 7.29: 29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.

Nehemiah 7.34: 34 The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Nehemiah 7.37: 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.

Nehemiah 7.39: 39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.

Nehemiah 7.41: 41 The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

Nehemiah 7.43: 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.

Nehemiah 7.45: 45 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: one hundred thirty-eight.

Nehemiah 7.46: 46 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Nehemiah 7.47: 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

Nehemiah 7.48: 48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

Nehemiah 7.49: 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

Nehemiah 7.50: 50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

Nehemiah 7.51: 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.

Nehemiah 7.52: 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,

Nehemiah 7.53: 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

Nehemiah 7.54: 54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Nehemiah 7.55: 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

Nehemiah 7.57: 57 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

Nehemiah 7.58: 58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

Nehemiah 7.59: 59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the children of Amon.

Nehemiah 7.60: 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7.61: 61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring,1 whether they were of Israel:

Nehemiah 7.62: 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.

Nehemiah 7.63: 63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

Nehemiah 7.64: 64 These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.

Nehemiah 7.65: 65 The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.

Nehemiah 7.66: 66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Nehemiah 7.67: 67 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

Nehemiah 7.68: 68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

Nehemiah 7.69: 69 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

Nehemiah 7.70: 70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold,2 fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.

Nehemiah 7.71: 71 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas3 of silver.

Nehemiah 7.72: 72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.

Nehemiah 7.73: 73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities.

Nehemiah 8.1: 8All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

Nehemiah 8.2: 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

Nehemiah 8.3: 3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

Nehemiah 8.4: 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Nehemiah 8.5: 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

Nehemiah 8.7: 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.

Nehemiah 8.8: 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

Nehemiah 8.9: 9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8.10: 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Nehemiah 8.11: 11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”

Nehemiah 8.12: 12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

Nehemiah 8.13: 13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8.14: 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

Nehemiah 8.15: 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters,1 as it is written.”

Nehemiah 8.16: 16 So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters,2 everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

Nehemiah 8.17: 17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters,3 and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.

Nehemiah 8.18: 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

Nehemiah 9.1: 9Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

Nehemiah 9.2: 2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 9.3: 3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.

Nehemiah 9.4: 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.

Nehemiah 9.5: 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

Nehemiah 9.6: 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Nehemiah 9.7: 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,

Nehemiah 9.8: 8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

Nehemiah 9.9: 9 “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

Nehemiah 9.10: 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.

Nehemiah 9.11: 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Nehemiah 9.12: 12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9.13: 13 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Nehemiah 9.14: 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

Nehemiah 9.15: 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

Nehemiah 9.16: 16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

Nehemiah 9.17: 17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Nehemiah 9.18: 18 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;

Nehemiah 9.19: 19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9.20: 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Nehemiah 9.21: 21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.

Nehemiah 9.22: 22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Nehemiah 9.23: 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Nehemiah 9.24: 24 “So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.

Nehemiah 9.25: 25 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9.26: 26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9.27: 27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.

Nehemiah 9.28: 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

Nehemiah 9.29: 29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Nehemiah 9.30: 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Nehemiah 9.31: 31 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Nehemiah 9.32: 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

Nehemiah 9.33: 33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Nehemiah 9.34: 34 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

Nehemiah 9.35: 35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.

Nehemiah 9.36: 36 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

Nehemiah 9.37: 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Nehemiah 9.38: 38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

Nehemiah 10.1: 10Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

Nehemiah 10.9: 9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

Nehemiah 10.10: 10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

Nehemiah 10.14: 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

Nehemiah 10.28: 28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—

Nehemiah 10.29: 29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Nehemiah 10.30: 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

Nehemiah 10.31: 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 10.32: 32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel1 for the service of the house of our God;

Nehemiah 10.33: 33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Nehemiah 10.34: 34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;

Nehemiah 10.35: 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;

Nehemiah 10.36: 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

Nehemiah 10.37: 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Nehemiah 10.38: 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.

Nehemiah 10.39: 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

Nehemiah 11.1: 11The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

Nehemiah 11.2: 2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 11.3: 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.

Nehemiah 11.4: 4 Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

Nehemiah 11.5: 5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.

Nehemiah 11.6: 6 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.

Nehemiah 11.7: 7 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.

Nehemiah 11.9: 9 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

Nehemiah 11.11: 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,

Nehemiah 11.12: 12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

Nehemiah 11.13: 13 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

Nehemiah 11.14: 14 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

Nehemiah 11.15: 15 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

Nehemiah 11.16: 16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;

Nehemiah 11.17: 17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Nehemiah 11.18: 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

Nehemiah 11.19: 19 Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.

Nehemiah 11.20: 20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.

Nehemiah 11.21: 21 But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.

Nehemiah 11.22: 22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.

Nehemiah 11.23: 23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

Nehemiah 11.24: 24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.

Nehemiah 11.25: 25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,

Nehemiah 11.30: 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.

Nehemiah 11.31: 31 The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

Nehemiah 11.36: 36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.

Nehemiah 12.1: 12Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Nehemiah 12.7: 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.

Nehemiah 12.8: 8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

Nehemiah 12.9: 9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.

Nehemiah 12.10: 10 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,

Nehemiah 12.11: 11 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.

Nehemiah 12.12: 12 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Nehemiah 12.22: 22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

Nehemiah 12.23: 23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ households, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 12.24: 24 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

Nehemiah 12.25: 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

Nehemiah 12.26: 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest and scribe.

Nehemiah 12.27: 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

Nehemiah 12.28: 28 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

Nehemiah 12.29: 29 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 12.30: 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Nehemiah 12.31: 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

Nehemiah 12.32: 32 and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,

Nehemiah 12.35: 35 and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

Nehemiah 12.36: 36 and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

Nehemiah 12.37: 37 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

Nehemiah 12.38: 38 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

Nehemiah 12.39: 39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

Nehemiah 12.40: 40 So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;

Nehemiah 12.41: 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

Nehemiah 12.42: 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

Nehemiah 12.43: 43 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

Nehemiah 12.44: 44 On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

Nehemiah 12.45: 45 They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

Nehemiah 12.46: 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Nehemiah 12.47: 47 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

Nehemiah 13.1: 13On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

Nehemiah 13.2: 2 because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Nehemiah 13.3: 3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

Nehemiah 13.4: 4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,

Nehemiah 13.5: 5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.

Nehemiah 13.6: 6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,

Nehemiah 13.7: 7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.

Nehemiah 13.8: 8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

Nehemiah 13.9: 9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.

Nehemiah 13.10: 10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

Nehemiah 13.11: 11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

Nehemiah 13.12: 12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.

Nehemiah 13.13: 13 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

Nehemiah 13.14: 14 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

Nehemiah 13.15: 15 In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Nehemiah 13.16: 16 Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13.17: 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

Nehemiah 13.18: 18 Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

Nehemiah 13.19: 19 It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13.20: 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

Nehemiah 13.21: 21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.

Nehemiah 13.22: 22 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

Nehemiah 13.23: 23 In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Nehemiah 13.24: 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

Nehemiah 13.25: 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

Nehemiah 13.26: 26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

Nehemiah 13.27: 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

Nehemiah 13.28: 28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

Nehemiah 13.29: 29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Nehemiah 13.30: 30 Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

Nehemiah 13.31: 31 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

Esther 1.1: 1Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

Esther 1.2: 2 in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,

Esther 1.3: 3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.

Esther 1.4: 4 He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

Esther 1.5: 5 When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

Esther 1.6: 6 There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Esther 1.7: 7 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.

Esther 1.8: 8 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

Esther 1.9: 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Esther 1.10: 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

Esther 1.11: 11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

Esther 1.12: 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

Esther 1.13: 13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

Esther 1.14: 14 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

Esther 1.15: 15 “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

Esther 1.16: 16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 1.17: 17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

Esther 1.18: 18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

Esther 1.19: 19 “If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

Esther 1.20: 20 When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

Esther 1.21: 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

Esther 1.22: 22 for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

Esther 2.1: 2After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Esther 2.2: 2 Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

Esther 2.3: 3 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

Esther 2.4: 4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

Esther 2.5: 5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Esther 2.6: 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

Esther 2.7: 7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Esther 2.8: 8 So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

Esther 2.9: 9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

Esther 2.10: 10 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

Esther 2.11: 11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

Esther 2.12: 12 Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

Esther 2.13: 13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

Esther 2.14: 14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

Esther 2.15: 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Esther 2.16: 16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Esther 2.17: 17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther 2.18: 18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

Esther 2.19: 19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Esther 2.20: 20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

Esther 2.21: 21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 2.22: 22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

Esther 2.23: 23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

Esther 3.1: 3After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

Esther 3.2: 2 All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Esther 3.3: 3 Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”

Esther 3.4: 4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Esther 3.5: 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

Esther 3.6: 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

Esther 3.7: 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Esther 3.8: 8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Esther 3.9: 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents1 of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 3.10: 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

Esther 3.11: 11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Esther 3.12: 12 Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 3.13: 13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 3.14: 14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Esther 3.15: 15 The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Esther 4.1: 4Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.

Esther 4.2: 2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4.3: 3 In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 4.4: 4 Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

Esther 4.5: 5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

Esther 4.6: 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.

Esther 4.7: 7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

Esther 4.8: 8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

Esther 4.10: 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

Esther 4.11: 11 “All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

Esther 4.13: 13 Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.

Esther 4.14: 14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Esther 4.16: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Esther 4.17: 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

Esther 5.1: 5Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

Esther 5.2: 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

Esther 5.3: 3 Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”

Esther 5.4: 4 Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

Esther 5.5: 5 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 5.6: 6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Esther 5.7: 7 Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.

Esther 5.8: 8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

Esther 5.9: 9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Esther 5.10: 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Esther 5.11: 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 5.12: 12 Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

Esther 5.13: 13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Esther 5.14: 14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits1 high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Esther 6.1: 6On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

Esther 6.2: 2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 6.3: 3 The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?”

Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

Esther 6.4: 4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Esther 6.5: 5 The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,1 Haman stands in the court.”

Esther 6.6: 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?”

Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

Esther 6.7: 7 Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Esther 6.8: 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.

Esther 6.9: 9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

Esther 6.10: 10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”

Esther 6.11: 11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

Esther 6.12: 12 Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Esther 6.13: 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

Esther 6.14: 14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 7.2: 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Esther 7.3: 3 Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

Esther 7.4: 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

Esther 7.5: 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

Esther 7.6: 6 Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!”

Esther 7.7: 7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Esther 7.8: 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Esther 7.9: 9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits1 high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.”

Esther 7.10: 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Esther 8.1: 8On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Esther 8.2: 2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Esther 8.3: 3 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.

Esther 8.4: 4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

Esther 8.5: 5 She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

Esther 8.6: 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Esther 8.7: 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

Esther 8.8: 8 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”

Esther 8.9: 9 Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

Esther 8.10: 10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

Esther 8.11: 11 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

Esther 8.12: 12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Esther 8.13: 13 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

Esther 8.14: 14 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.

Esther 8.15: 15 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

Esther 8.17: 17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

Esther 9.1: 9Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

Esther 9.2: 2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

Esther 9.3: 3 All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

Esther 9.4: 4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

Esther 9.5: 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

Esther 9.6: 6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

Esther 9.10: 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9.11: 11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.

Esther 9.12: 12 The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”

Esther 9.13: 13 Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

Esther 9.14: 14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

Esther 9.15: 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9.16: 16 The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9.17: 17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9.18: 18 But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9.19: 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

Esther 9.20: 20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

Esther 9.21: 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

Esther 9.22: 22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

Esther 9.23: 23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

Esther 9.24: 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Esther 9.25: 25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Esther 9.26: 26 Therefore they called these days “Purim”,1 from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

Esther 9.27: 27 the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

Esther 9.28: 28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring,2

Esther 9.29: 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

Esther 9.30: 30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

Esther 9.31: 31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Esther 9.32: 32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

Esther 10.1: 10King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.

Esther 10.2: 2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Esther 10.3: 3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

Job 1.1: 1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God,1 and turned away from evil.

Job 1.3: 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Job 1.4: 4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Job 1.5: 5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Job 1.6: 6 Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh,2 Satan also came among them.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Job 1.8: 8 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Job 1.9: 9 Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Job 1.10: 10 Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Job 1.11: 11 But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 1.12: 12 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold,3 all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.”

Job 1.13: 13 It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Job 1.14: 14 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Job 1.15: 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1.16: 16 While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1.17: 17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1.18: 18 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Job 1.19: 19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1.20: 20 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

Job 1.21: 21 He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Job 2.1: 2Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Job 2.3: 3 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Job 2.4: 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 2.5: 5 But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 2.6: 6 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

Job 2.7: 7 So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

Job 2.8: 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Job 2.9: 9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

Job 2.10: 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”

Job 2.11: 11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Job 2.12: 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

Job 2.13: 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 6.14: 14 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;

Job 12.5: 5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.

Job 12.24: 24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth,

Job 20.18: 18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down.

Job 20.23: 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.

Job 27.8: 8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 32.1: 32So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 32.2: 2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 32.3: 3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 32.4: 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

Job 32.5: 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Job 42.7: 7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Job 42.8: 8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

Job 42.9: 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

Job 42.10: 10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42.11: 11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,1 and everyone a ring of gold.

Job 42.12: 12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Job 42.14: 14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

Job 42.15: 15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

Job 42.16: 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Psalms 1.1: 1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

Psalms 2.12: 12 Give sincere homage to the Son,3 lest he be angry, and you perish on the way,

Psalms 5.7: 7 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house.

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.

A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

Psalms 12.5: 5 “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,

For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

Psalms 18.24: 24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

Psalms 18.38: 38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.

Psalms 18.49: 49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,

Psalms 19.10: 10 They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold,

Psalms 22.24: 24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,

Psalms 22.31: 31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born,

Psalms 23.6: 6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,

Psalms 27.5: 5 For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.

Psalms 28.4: 4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings.

Psalms 30.9: 9 “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?

Psalms 30.12: 12 to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.

Psalms 31.11: 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,

Psalms 31.20: 20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man.

Psalms 31.22: 22 As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.”

Psalms 32.3: 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32.6: 6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found.

Psalms 32.9: 9 Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding,

Psalms 33.14: 14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

Psalms 35.4: 4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor.

Psalms 35.14: 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother.

Psalms 35.15: 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.

Psalms 35.19: 19 Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;

Psalms 35.25: 25 Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!”

Psalms 35.26: 26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity.

Psalms 35.27: 27 Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad.

Psalms 35.28: 28 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.

Psalms 36.1: 1 A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:

Psalms 36.8: 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.

Psalms 39.1: 1 I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.

Psalms 40.5: 5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,

Psalms 40.9: 9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.

I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Psalms 40.14: 14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.

Psalms 40.15: 15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.

Psalms 45.4: 4 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.

Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Psalms 46.4: 4 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Psalms 51.14: 14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.

For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David.

For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?”

Psalms 55.18: 18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me,

Psalms 55.23: 23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction.

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

Psalms 58.11: 11 so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

Psalms 61.2: 2 From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed.

Psalms 65.8: 8 They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders.

Psalms 68.17: 17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.

Psalms 69.4: 4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head.

Psalms 69.6: 6 Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies.

Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

Psalms 69.13: 13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time.

God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

Psalms 71.18: 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me,

Psalms 71.22: 22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God.

Psalms 71.24: 24 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,

Psalms 72.15: 15 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba.

Psalms 74.6: 6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

Psalms 78.6: 6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;

Psalms 78.38: 38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.

Psalms 78.72: 72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,

Psalms 79.2: 2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,

According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.

Psalms 83.12: 12 who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

Psalms 84.6: 6 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.

Psalms 86.9: 9 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.

Psalms 87.2: 2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalms 87.5: 5 Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;”

A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.

Psalms 90.4: 4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,

Psalms 91.14: 14 “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.

Psalms 94.21: 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,

Psalms 98.3: 3 He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.

Psalms 102.7: 7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Psalms 102.24: 24 I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days.

Psalms 103.17: 17 But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,

Psalms 106.4: 4 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people.

Psalms 106.37: 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Psalms 109.2: 2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.

Psalms 109.19: 19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,

Psalms 110.3: 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.

Psalms 116.13: 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.

Psalms 118.15: 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.

Psalms 119.20: 20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Psalms 119.72: 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Psalms 119.78: 78 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully.

Psalms 123.2: 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,

Psalms 123.4: 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,

Psalms 125.3: 3 For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous;

Psalms 128.3: 3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,

Psalms 130.6: 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning,

Psalms 137.6: 6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you,

Psalms 137.7: 7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,

Proverbs 6.32: 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.

Proverbs 7.10: 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,

Proverbs 11.20: 20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh,

Proverbs 12.14: 14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth.

Proverbs 13.22: 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,

Proverbs 17.2: 2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame,

Proverbs 17.15: 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous,

Proverbs 20.16: 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;

Proverbs 21.1: 21The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses.

Proverbs 21.20: 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise;

Proverbs 22.16: 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,

Proverbs 23.34: 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea,

Proverbs 24.15: 15 Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous.

Proverbs 25.1: 25These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

Proverbs 26.19: 19 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

Proverbs 27.14: 14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,

Proverbs 27.22: 22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,

Proverbs 28.17: 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death;

Proverbs 28.24: 24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,”

Proverbs 29.24: 24 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul.

Proverbs 31.1: 31The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

Ecclesiastes 1.1: 1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

Ecclesiastes 1.2: 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 1.3: 3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1.4: 4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 1.5: 5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

Ecclesiastes 1.6: 6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

Ecclesiastes 1.7: 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

Ecclesiastes 1.8: 8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1.9: 9 That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1.10: 10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold,1 this is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

Ecclesiastes 1.11: 11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 1.13: 13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God2 has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 1.14: 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1.15: 15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

Ecclesiastes 1.16: 16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

Ecclesiastes 1.17: 17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1.18: 18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2.1: 2I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2.2: 2 I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Ecclesiastes 2.3: 3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 2.4: 4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2.5: 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2.6: 6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2.7: 7 I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2.8: 8 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2.9: 9 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 2.10: 10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2.11: 11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2.12: 12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Ecclesiastes 2.13: 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2.14: 14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2.15: 15 Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2.16: 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2.17: 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2.18: 18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Ecclesiastes 2.19: 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2.20: 20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2.21: 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2.22: 22 For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2.23: 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2.24: 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2.26: 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3.1: 3For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3.10: 10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 3.11: 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3.12: 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Ecclesiastes 3.13: 13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3.14: 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 3.15: 15 That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.

Ecclesiastes 3.16: 16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 3.17: 17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Ecclesiastes 3.18: 18 I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Ecclesiastes 3.19: 19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3.20: 20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 3.21: 21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 3.22: 22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 4.1: 4Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4.2: 2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4.3: 3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4.4: 4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4.6: 6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4.8: 8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Ecclesiastes 4.9: 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Ecclesiastes 4.10: 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 4.11: 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4.12: 12 If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4.13: 13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Ecclesiastes 4.14: 14 For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

Ecclesiastes 4.15: 15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

Ecclesiastes 4.16: 16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5.1: 5Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Ecclesiastes 5.2: 2 Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5.3: 3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5.4: 4 When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Ecclesiastes 5.5: 5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5.6: 6 Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Ecclesiastes 5.7: 7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Ecclesiastes 5.8: 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Ecclesiastes 5.9: 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

Ecclesiastes 5.10: 10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5.11: 11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5.12: 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5.13: 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Ecclesiastes 5.14: 14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5.15: 15 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5.16: 16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5.17: 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

Ecclesiastes 5.18: 18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5.19: 19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5.20: 20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 6.1: 6There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

Ecclesiastes 6.2: 2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6.3: 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Ecclesiastes 6.4: 4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 6.5: 5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

Ecclesiastes 6.6: 6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6.7: 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 6.8: 8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 6.9: 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 6.10: 10 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

Ecclesiastes 6.11: 11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Ecclesiastes 6.12: 12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7.1: 7A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7.2: 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 7.3: 3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Ecclesiastes 7.4: 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 7.5: 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7.6: 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7.7: 7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Ecclesiastes 7.9: 9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7.10: 10 Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

Ecclesiastes 7.11: 11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7.12: 12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Ecclesiastes 7.13: 13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7.14: 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Ecclesiastes 7.15: 15 All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 7.16: 16 Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Ecclesiastes 7.17: 17 Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

Ecclesiastes 7.18: 18 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

Ecclesiastes 7.19: 19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Ecclesiastes 7.20: 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Ecclesiastes 7.21: 21 Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

Ecclesiastes 7.22: 22 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

Ecclesiastes 7.23: 23 All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7.24: 24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

Ecclesiastes 7.25: 25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 7.26: 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Ecclesiastes 7.27: 27 “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme

Ecclesiastes 7.28: 28 which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

Ecclesiastes 7.29: 29 Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 8.1: 8Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Ecclesiastes 8.2: 2 I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Ecclesiastes 8.3: 3 Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

Ecclesiastes 8.4: 4 for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Ecclesiastes 8.5: 5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

Ecclesiastes 8.6: 6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

Ecclesiastes 8.7: 7 For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 8.8: 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 8.9: 9 All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8.10: 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8.11: 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8.12: 12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Ecclesiastes 8.13: 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8.14: 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8.15: 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8.16: 16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

Ecclesiastes 8.17: 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 9.1: 9For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

Ecclesiastes 9.2: 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9.3: 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9.4: 4 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9.5: 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9.6: 6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9.7: 7 Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Ecclesiastes 9.8: 8 Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

Ecclesiastes 9.9: 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9.10: 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol,1 where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9.11: 11 I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9.12: 12 For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Ecclesiastes 9.13: 13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

Ecclesiastes 9.14: 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

Ecclesiastes 9.15: 15 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9.16: 16 Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Ecclesiastes 9.17: 17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Ecclesiastes 9.18: 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes 10.1: 10Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor;

Ecclesiastes 10.3: 3 Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 10.4: 4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Ecclesiastes 10.5: 5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

Ecclesiastes 10.6: 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

Ecclesiastes 10.7: 7 I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 10.8: 8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Ecclesiastes 10.9: 9 Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered by it.

Ecclesiastes 10.10: 10 If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

Ecclesiastes 10.11: 11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

Ecclesiastes 10.12: 12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Ecclesiastes 10.13: 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 10.15: 15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

Ecclesiastes 10.17: 17 Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles,

Ecclesiastes 11.3: 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth;

Ecclesiastes 11.8: 8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all;

Ecclesiastes 12.2: 2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened,

Ecclesiastes 12.9: 9 Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Ecclesiastes 12.10: 10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Ecclesiastes 12.11: 11 The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Ecclesiastes 12.12: 12 Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 12.13: 13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12.14: 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Song of Solomon 3.6: 6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,

Song of Solomon 4.13: 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,

Song of Solomon 5.13: 13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.

Song of Solomon 5.15: 15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.

Song of Solomon 6.7: 7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Song of Solomon 7.1: 7How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!

Song of Solomon 8.2: 2 I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother,

Song of Solomon 8.13: 13 You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,

Isaiah 1.1: 1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 1.6: 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:

Isaiah 1.11: 11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh.

Isaiah 1.20: 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword;

Isaiah 1.28: 28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,

Isaiah 2.1: 2This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2.2: 2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,

Isaiah 2.12: 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,

Isaiah 3.1: 3For, behold,1 the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support,

Isaiah 3.6: 6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,

Isaiah 3.16: 16 Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant,

Isaiah 3.17: 17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion,

Isaiah 3.18: 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

Isaiah 3.20: 20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms,

Isaiah 3.23: 23 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

Isaiah 3.24: 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;

Isaiah 4.1: 4Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

Isaiah 4.2: 2 In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 4.3: 3 It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,

Isaiah 4.4: 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Isaiah 4.5: 5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Isaiah 4.6: 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

Isaiah 5.1: 5Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.

Isaiah 5.4: 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?

Isaiah 5.9: 9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,

Isaiah 5.11: 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,

Isaiah 5.12: 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;

and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Isaiah 5.19: 19 who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;

Isaiah 5.30: 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.

Isaiah 6.1: 6In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Isaiah 6.2: 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

Isaiah 6.4: 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 6.5: 5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Isaiah 6.6: 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

Isaiah 6.7: 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Isaiah 6.8: 8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”

Isaiah 7.1: 7In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 7.2: 2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

Isaiah 7.3: 3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.

Isaiah 7.4: 4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Isaiah 7.5: 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,

Isaiah 7.6: 6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”

Isaiah 7.7: 7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

Isaiah 7.8: 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.

Isaiah 7.9: 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”

Isaiah 7.11: 11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

Isaiah 7.13: 13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

Isaiah 7.14: 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.1

Isaiah 7.15: 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Isaiah 7.16: 16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

Isaiah 7.17: 17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 7.18: 18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 7.19: 19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

Isaiah 7.20: 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 7.21: 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.

Isaiah 7.22: 22 It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

Isaiah 7.23: 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels,2 shall be for briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7.24: 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7.25: 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”

Isaiah 8.1: 8Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;1

Isaiah 8.2: 2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

Isaiah 8.3: 3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

Isaiah 8.4: 4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 8.6: 6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

Isaiah 8.7: 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

Isaiah 8.8: 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

Isaiah 8.9: 9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8.10: 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Isaiah 8.11: 11 For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

Isaiah 8.12: 12 “Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

Isaiah 8.13: 13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

Isaiah 8.14: 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Isaiah 8.15: 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Isaiah 8.17: 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 8.18: 18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Isaiah 8.19: 19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Isaiah 8.20: 20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Isaiah 8.21: 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Isaiah 8.22: 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Isaiah 9.1: 9But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Isaiah 9.4: 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 9.5: 5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Isaiah 9.6: 6 For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9.7: 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

Isaiah 9.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin,

Isaiah 9.21: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah.

Isaiah 10.1: 10Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

Isaiah 10.2: 2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10.3: 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 10.5: 5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Isaiah 10.6: 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10.7: 7 However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

Isaiah 10.9: 9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

Isaiah 10.10: 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

Isaiah 10.11: 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Isaiah 10.12: 12 Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Isaiah 10.13: 13 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

Isaiah 10.14: 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

Isaiah 10.15: 15 Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Isaiah 10.16: 16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 10.17: 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Isaiah 10.18: 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

Isaiah 10.19: 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

Isaiah 10.20: 20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 10.21: 21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Isaiah 10.22: 22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 10.23: 23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.

Isaiah 10.24: 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

Isaiah 10.25: 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

Isaiah 10.26: 26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

Isaiah 10.27: 27 It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Isaiah 10.28: 28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

Isaiah 10.29: 29 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Isaiah 10.30: 30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

Isaiah 10.31: 31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

Isaiah 10.32: 32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10.33: 33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Isaiah 10.34: 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Isaiah 11.10: 10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Isaiah 11.11: 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 11.12: 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11.13: 13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

Isaiah 11.14: 14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

Isaiah 11.15: 15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

Isaiah 11.16: 16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 12.1: 12In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Isaiah 12.2: 2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 12.3: 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 12.4: 4 In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

Isaiah 12.5: 5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

Isaiah 12.6: 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

Isaiah 13.2: 2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Isaiah 13.3: 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

Isaiah 13.4: 4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

Isaiah 13.5: 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

Isaiah 13.6: 6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13.7: 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

Isaiah 13.8: 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

Isaiah 13.9: 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

Isaiah 13.10: 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Isaiah 13.11: 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.

Isaiah 13.12: 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 13.13: 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 13.14: 14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

Isaiah 13.15: 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 13.16: 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

Isaiah 13.17: 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

Isaiah 13.18: 18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

Isaiah 13.19: 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13.20: 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

Isaiah 13.21: 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

Isaiah 13.22: 22 Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14.1: 14For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14.2: 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 14.3: 3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

Isaiah 14.4: 4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

Isaiah 14.5: 5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

Isaiah 14.6: 6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

Isaiah 14.7: 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.

Isaiah 14.8: 8 Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”

Isaiah 14.9: 9 Sheol1 from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Isaiah 14.10: 10 They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

Isaiah 14.11: 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,2 with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Isaiah 14.12: 12 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

Isaiah 14.13: 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

Isaiah 14.14: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

Isaiah 14.15: 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,3 to the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14.16: 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

Isaiah 14.17: 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

Isaiah 14.18: 18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

Isaiah 14.19: 19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

Isaiah 14.20: 20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

Isaiah 14.21: 21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

Isaiah 14.22: 22 “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 14.23: 23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 14.24: 24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Isaiah 14.25: 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

Isaiah 14.26: 26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 14.27: 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Isaiah 14.29: 29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

Isaiah 14.30: 30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

Isaiah 14.31: 31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

Isaiah 14.32: 32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

Isaiah 15.2: 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

Isaiah 15.3: 3 In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 15.4: 4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

Isaiah 15.5: 5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

Isaiah 15.6: 6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 15.7: 7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

Isaiah 15.8: 8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

Isaiah 15.9: 9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

Isaiah 16.1: 16Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 16.2: 2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Isaiah 16.3: 3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Isaiah 16.4: 4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Isaiah 16.5: 5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Isaiah 16.6: 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

Isaiah 16.7: 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

Isaiah 16.8: 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

Isaiah 16.9: 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Isaiah 16.10: 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

Isaiah 16.11: 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

Isaiah 16.12: 12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

Isaiah 16.13: 13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

Isaiah 16.14: 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

“Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 17.2: 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 17.3: 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 17.4: 4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

Isaiah 17.5: 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17.6: 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 17.7: 7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17.8: 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

Isaiah 17.9: 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

Isaiah 17.10: 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Isaiah 17.11: 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Isaiah 17.12: 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Isaiah 17.13: 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 17.14: 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

Isaiah 18.1: 18Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

Isaiah 18.2: 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

Isaiah 18.3: 3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

Isaiah 18.4: 4 For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 18.5: 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

Isaiah 18.6: 6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.

Isaiah 18.7: 7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

“Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

Isaiah 19.2: 2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 19.3: 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Isaiah 19.4: 4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 19.5: 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

Isaiah 19.6: 6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

Isaiah 19.7: 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

Isaiah 19.8: 8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

Isaiah 19.9: 9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

Isaiah 19.10: 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

Isaiah 19.11: 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Isaiah 19.12: 12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

Isaiah 19.13: 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

Isaiah 19.14: 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 19.15: 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

Isaiah 19.16: 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.

Isaiah 19.17: 17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Isaiah 19.18: 18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”

Isaiah 19.19: 19 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.

Isaiah 19.20: 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

Isaiah 19.21: 21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.

Isaiah 19.22: 22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

Isaiah 19.23: 23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

Isaiah 19.24: 24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;

Isaiah 19.25: 25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

Isaiah 20.1: 20In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;

Isaiah 20.2: 2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 20.3: 3 Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

Isaiah 20.4: 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20.5: 5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 20.6: 6 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’”

As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

Isaiah 21.2: 2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

Isaiah 21.3: 3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

Isaiah 21.4: 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

Isaiah 21.5: 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

Isaiah 21.6: 6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

Isaiah 21.7: 7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

Isaiah 21.8: 8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Isaiah 21.9: 9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

Isaiah 21.10: 10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

Isaiah 21.12: 12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

Isaiah 21.14: 14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

Isaiah 21.15: 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

Isaiah 21.16: 16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

Isaiah 21.17: 17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

Isaiah 22.2: 2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Isaiah 22.3: 3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

Isaiah 22.4: 4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 22.5: 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Isaiah 22.6: 6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

Isaiah 22.7: 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

Isaiah 22.8: 8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

Isaiah 22.9: 9 You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Isaiah 22.10: 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

Isaiah 22.11: 11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

Isaiah 22.12: 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Isaiah 22.13: 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Isaiah 22.14: 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 22.15: 15 The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

Isaiah 22.16: 16 ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

Isaiah 22.17: 17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

Isaiah 22.18: 18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

Isaiah 22.19: 19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

Isaiah 22.20: 20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

Isaiah 22.21: 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Isaiah 22.22: 22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

Isaiah 22.23: 23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Isaiah 22.24: 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

Isaiah 22.25: 25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

Isaiah 23.2: 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Isaiah 23.3: 3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

Isaiah 23.4: 4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”

Isaiah 23.5: 5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

Isaiah 23.7: 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

Isaiah 23.8: 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

Isaiah 23.9: 9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Isaiah 23.10: 10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

Isaiah 23.11: 11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

Isaiah 23.12: 12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

Isaiah 23.13: 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

Isaiah 23.14: 14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

Isaiah 23.15: 15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

Isaiah 23.16: 16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

Isaiah 23.17: 17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

Isaiah 23.18: 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Isaiah 24.1: 24Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

Isaiah 24.2: 2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

Isaiah 24.3: 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24.4: 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

Isaiah 24.5: 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24.6: 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Isaiah 24.7: 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

Isaiah 24.8: 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

Isaiah 24.9: 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 24.10: 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Isaiah 24.11: 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

Isaiah 24.12: 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Isaiah 24.13: 13 For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

Isaiah 24.14: 14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.

Isaiah 24.15: 15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

Isaiah 24.16: 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous!

But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

Isaiah 24.17: 17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth.

Isaiah 24.18: 18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Isaiah 24.19: 19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

Isaiah 24.20: 20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

Isaiah 24.21: 21 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

Isaiah 24.22: 22 They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Isaiah 24.23: 23 Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

Isaiah 25.1: 25Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 25.2: 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

Isaiah 25.3: 3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

Isaiah 25.4: 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Isaiah 25.5: 5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

Isaiah 25.6: 6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat,1 a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

Isaiah 25.7: 7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

Isaiah 25.8: 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Isaiah 25.9: 9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

Isaiah 25.11: 11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

Isaiah 25.12: 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 26.8: 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.

for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26.13: 13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,

Isaiah 26.17: 17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,

Isaiah 26.21: 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.

Isaiah 27.1: 27In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 27.3: 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

Isaiah 27.4: 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

Isaiah 27.5: 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

Isaiah 27.6: 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Isaiah 27.7: 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

Isaiah 27.8: 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 27.9: 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Isaiah 27.10: 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

Isaiah 27.11: 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 27.12: 12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

Isaiah 27.13: 13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28.1: 28Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28.2: 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

Isaiah 28.3: 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

Isaiah 28.4: 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

Isaiah 28.5: 5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,

Isaiah 28.6: 6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Isaiah 28.7: 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 28.8: 8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

Isaiah 28.9: 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Isaiah 28.10: 10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

Isaiah 28.11: 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,

Isaiah 28.12: 12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 28.13: 13 Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

Isaiah 28.14: 14 Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

Isaiah 28.15: 15 “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. 1 When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

Isaiah 28.16: 16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Isaiah 28.17: 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 28.18: 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol 2 shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

Isaiah 28.19: 19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

Isaiah 28.20: 20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Isaiah 28.21: 21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Isaiah 28.22: 22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Isaiah 28.24: 24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Isaiah 28.25: 25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

Isaiah 28.27: 27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

Isaiah 28.28: 28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

Isaiah 28.29: 29 This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 29.1: 29Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Isaiah 29.2: 2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.1

Isaiah 29.3: 3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

Isaiah 29.4: 4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 29.5: 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 29.6: 6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 29.7: 7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Isaiah 29.8: 8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Isaiah 29.9: 9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 29.10: 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 29.11: 11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Isaiah 29.12: 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”

Isaiah 29.13: 13 The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Isaiah 29.14: 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Isaiah 29.15: 15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Isaiah 29.16: 16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Isaiah 29.17: 17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

Isaiah 29.18: 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Isaiah 29.19: 19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 29.20: 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Isaiah 29.21: 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Isaiah 29.22: 22 Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

Isaiah 29.23: 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 29.24: 24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

Isaiah 30.1: 30“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Isaiah 30.2: 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Isaiah 30.3: 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Isaiah 30.4: 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

Isaiah 30.5: 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

Isaiah 30.7: 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

Isaiah 30.8: 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

Isaiah 30.9: 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

Isaiah 30.10: 10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 30.11: 11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

Isaiah 30.12: 12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

Isaiah 30.13: 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

Isaiah 30.14: 14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Isaiah 30.15: 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Isaiah 30.16: 16 but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

Isaiah 30.17: 17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

Isaiah 30.18: 18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 30.19: 19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

Isaiah 30.20: 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Isaiah 30.21: 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Isaiah 30.22: 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

Isaiah 30.23: 23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Isaiah 30.24: 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

Isaiah 30.25: 25 There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 30.26: 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Isaiah 30.27: 27 Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30.28: 28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Isaiah 30.29: 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Isaiah 30.30: 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

Isaiah 30.31: 31 For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

Isaiah 30.32: 32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

Isaiah 30.33: 33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,

Isaiah 31.6: 6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Isaiah 31.7: 7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

Isaiah 32.10: 10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;

Isaiah 33.6: 6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

Isaiah 34.12: 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;

Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

Isaiah 36.1: 36Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Isaiah 36.2: 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.

Isaiah 36.3: 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.

Isaiah 36.4: 4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

Isaiah 36.5: 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Isaiah 36.6: 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 36.7: 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”

Isaiah 36.8: 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

Isaiah 36.9: 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 36.10: 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”

Isaiah 36.11: 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Isaiah 36.12: 12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Isaiah 36.13: 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36.14: 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.

Isaiah 36.15: 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’

Isaiah 36.16: 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

Isaiah 36.17: 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 36.18: 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 36.19: 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 36.20: 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

Isaiah 36.21: 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

Isaiah 36.22: 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 37.1: 37When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 37.2: 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 37.3: 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

Isaiah 37.4: 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

Isaiah 37.6: 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Isaiah 37.7: 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Isaiah 37.8: 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Isaiah 37.9: 9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Isaiah 37.10: 10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 37.11: 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

Isaiah 37.12: 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Isaiah 37.13: 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”

Isaiah 37.14: 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

Isaiah 37.16: 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 37.17: 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Isaiah 37.18: 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,

Isaiah 37.19: 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 37.20: 20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

Isaiah 37.21: 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 37.22: 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Isaiah 37.23: 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 37.24: 24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Isaiah 37.25: 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

Isaiah 37.26: 26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 37.27: 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

Isaiah 37.28: 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

Isaiah 37.29: 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Isaiah 37.30: 30 “‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37.31: 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

Isaiah 37.32: 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’

Isaiah 37.33: 33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

Isaiah 37.34: 34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

Isaiah 37.35: 35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

Isaiah 37.36: 36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 37.37: 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Isaiah 37.38: 38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

Isaiah 38.1: 38In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

Isaiah 38.3: 3 and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38.5: 5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 38.6: 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38.7: 7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

Isaiah 38.8: 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

Isaiah 38.9: 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

Isaiah 38.10: 10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.1

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 38.21: 21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

Isaiah 38.22: 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

Isaiah 39.1: 39At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

Isaiah 39.2: 2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

Isaiah 39.3: 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”

Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”

Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

Isaiah 39.5: 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:

Isaiah 39.6: 6 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

Isaiah 39.7: 7 ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”

Isaiah 39.8: 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

Isaiah 40.2: 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Isaiah 40.20: 20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.

He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.

and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’

Isaiah 41.11: 11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded.

Isaiah 41.15: 15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.

Isaiah 41.19: 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness.

even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

Isaiah 42.21: 21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law

Isaiah 43.14: 14 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Isaiah 43.15: 15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

Isaiah 43.20: 20 The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me,

Isaiah 43.25: 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;

Isaiah 44.28: 28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’

Isaiah 45.1: 45Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

Isaiah 45.10: 10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’

Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.

Isaiah 49.6: 6 Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,

says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:

because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,

Isaiah 49.21: 21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children

Isaiah 49.22: 22 The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,

Isaiah 49.25: 25 But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

Isaiah 50.1: 50Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?

Isaiah 51.18: 18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;

and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

Isaiah 52.7: 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,

Isaiah 52.10: 10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations.

his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 54.6: 6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,

but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54.16: 16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame,

Isaiah 56.5: 5 I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters.

“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,

Isaiah 57.16: 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;

Isaiah 57.17: 17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.

Isaiah 59.21: 21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Isaiah 60.11: 11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

Isaiah 60.12: 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Isaiah 60.13: 13 “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.

so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

“Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?

Isaiah 65.7: 7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh,

Isaiah 65.16: 16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;

Isaiah 66.9: 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.10: 10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.

Isaiah 66.12: 12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,

Isaiah 66.16: 16 For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh;

Isaiah 66.17: 17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.18: 18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

Isaiah 66.19: 19 “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Isaiah 66.20: 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 66.21: 21 Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.22: 22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.

Isaiah 66.23: 23 It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.24: 24 “They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

Jeremiah 1.1: 1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.

Jeremiah 1.2: 2 Yahweh’s1 word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Jeremiah 1.3: 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

Jeremiah 1.6: 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord2 Yahweh! Behold,3 I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

Jeremiah 1.7: 7 But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

Jeremiah 1.8: 8 Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 1.9: 9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Jeremiah 1.10: 10 Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 1.11: 11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”

Jeremiah 1.12: 12 Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

Jeremiah 1.13: 13 Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?”

Jeremiah 1.14: 14 Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 1.15: 15 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh.

“They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 1.16: 16 I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness,

Jeremiah 1.17: 17 “You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

Jeremiah 1.18: 18 For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

Jeremiah 1.19: 19 They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

Jeremiah 2.2: 2 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says,

Jeremiah 2.4: 4 Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

Jeremiah 2.6: 6 They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,

Jeremiah 2.16: 16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

Jeremiah 2.18: 18 Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor?

Jeremiah 2.24: 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving.

All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

Jeremiah 2.34: 34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts.

Jeremiah 3.1: 3“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 3.2: 2 “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

Jeremiah 3.3: 3 Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 3.4: 4 Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

Jeremiah 3.5: 5 “‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

Jeremiah 3.6: 6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.

Jeremiah 3.7: 7 I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 3.8: 8 I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 3.9: 9 Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.

Jeremiah 3.10: 10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 3.11: 11 Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Jeremiah 3.12: 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

Jeremiah 3.13: 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”

Jeremiah 3.14: 14 “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3.15: 15 I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Jeremiah 3.16: 16 It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.

Jeremiah 3.17: 17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

Jeremiah 3.18: 18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

Jeremiah 3.19: 19 “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Jeremiah 3.20: 20 “Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 3.21: 21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

Jeremiah 3.22: 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding.

Jeremiah 3.23: 23 Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

Jeremiah 3.24: 24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Jeremiah 3.25: 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

Jeremiah 4.1: 4“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;

Jeremiah 4.2: 2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

Jeremiah 4.3: 3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

Jeremiah 4.4: 4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 4.5: 5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’

Jeremiah 4.6: 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”

Jeremiah 4.7: 7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4.8: 8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.

Jeremiah 4.9: 9 “It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”

Jeremiah 4.10: 10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”

Jeremiah 4.11: 11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

Jeremiah 4.12: 12 a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”

Jeremiah 4.13: 13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Jeremiah 4.14: 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 4.15: 15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Jeremiah 4.16: 16 “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 4.17: 17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 4.18: 18 “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

Jeremiah 4.19: 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 4.20: 20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

Jeremiah 4.21: 21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 4.22: 22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 4.23: 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

Jeremiah 4.24: 24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

Jeremiah 4.25: 25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.

Jeremiah 4.26: 26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4.27: 27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 4.28: 28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

Jeremiah 4.29: 29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

Jeremiah 4.30: 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.

Jeremiah 4.31: 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Jeremiah 5.1: 5“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 5.2: 2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

Jeremiah 5.3: 3 O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5.4: 4 Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

Jeremiah 5.5: 5 I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 5.6: 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

Jeremiah 5.7: 7 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Jeremiah 5.8: 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Jeremiah 5.9: 9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5.10: 10 “Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.

Jeremiah 5.11: 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 5.12: 12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

Jeremiah 5.13: 13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

Jeremiah 5.14: 14 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.

Jeremiah 5.15: 15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

Jeremiah 5.17: 17 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.

Jeremiah 5.18: 18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.

Jeremiah 5.19: 19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

Jeremiah 5.20: 20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 5.21: 21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Jeremiah 5.22: 22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

Jeremiah 5.23: 23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

Jeremiah 5.24: 24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

Jeremiah 5.25: 25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Jeremiah 5.26: 26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Jeremiah 5.27: 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Jeremiah 5.28: 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 5.29: 29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5.30: 30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

Jeremiah 5.31: 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Jeremiah 6.1: 6“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6.2: 2 I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 6.3: 3 Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”

Jeremiah 6.4: 4 “Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Jeremiah 6.5: 5 Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”

Jeremiah 6.6: 6 For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is wholly oppression within herself.

Jeremiah 6.7: 7 As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

Jeremiah 6.8: 8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Jeremiah 6.9: 9 Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”

Jeremiah 6.10: 10 To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Jeremiah 6.11: 11 Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in.

Jeremiah 6.13: 13 “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness.

Jeremiah 6.16: 16 Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Jeremiah 6.17: 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

Jeremiah 6.18: 18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.

Jeremiah 6.19: 19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 6.20: 20 To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Jeremiah 6.21: 21 Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

Jeremiah 6.22: 22 Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Jeremiah 6.23: 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”

Jeremiah 6.24: 24 We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6.25: 25 Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

Jeremiah 6.26: 26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

Jeremiah 6.27: 27 “I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.

Jeremiah 6.28: 28 They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

Jeremiah 6.29: 29 The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jeremiah 6.30: 30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

Jeremiah 7.2: 2 “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”

Jeremiah 7.3: 3 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Jeremiah 7.4: 4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

Jeremiah 7.5: 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Jeremiah 7.6: 6 if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

Jeremiah 7.7: 7 then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

Jeremiah 7.9: 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7.10: 10 then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 7.11: 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 7.12: 12 “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Jeremiah 7.13: 13 Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;

Jeremiah 7.14: 14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

Jeremiah 7.15: 15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring1 of Ephraim.

Jeremiah 7.16: 16 “Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

Jeremiah 7.17: 17 Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 7.18: 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 7.19: 19 Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

Jeremiah 7.20: 20 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”

Jeremiah 7.21: 21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.

Jeremiah 7.22: 22 For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;

Jeremiah 7.23: 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Jeremiah 7.24: 24 But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 7.25: 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

Jeremiah 7.26: 26 Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Jeremiah 7.27: 27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Jeremiah 7.28: 28 You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’

Jeremiah 7.29: 29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jeremiah 7.30: 30 “For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 7.31: 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

Jeremiah 7.32: 32 Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.

Jeremiah 7.33: 33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

Jeremiah 7.34: 34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

Jeremiah 8.1: 8“At that time,” says Yahweh, “they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

Jeremiah 8.2: 2 They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

Jeremiah 8.3: 3 Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Jeremiah 8.5: 5 Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding?

Jeremiah 8.8: 8 “‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?”

Jeremiah 8.11: 11 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,

Jeremiah 8.19: 19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off:

Jeremiah 9.12: 12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Jeremiah 9.13: 13 Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,

Jeremiah 9.14: 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

Jeremiah 9.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Jeremiah 9.16: 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,

Jeremiah 9.25: 25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

Jeremiah 9.26: 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

Jeremiah 10.9: 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish,

Jeremiah 10.11: 11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”

Jeremiah 11.2: 2 “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 11.3: 3 and say to them, Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant,

Jeremiah 11.4: 4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

Jeremiah 11.5: 5 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.”

Jeremiah 11.6: 6 Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

Jeremiah 11.7: 7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”

Jeremiah 11.8: 8 Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’”

Jeremiah 11.9: 9 Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 11.10: 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 11.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11.12: 12 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 11.13: 13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’

Jeremiah 11.14: 14 “Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

Jeremiah 11.17: 17 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

Jeremiah 11.18: 18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.

Jeremiah 11.19: 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,

Jeremiah 11.21: 21 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

Jeremiah 11.22: 22 therefore Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.

Jeremiah 11.23: 23 There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’”

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.

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.

Jeremiah 13.1: 13Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”

Jeremiah 13.2: 2 So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.

Jeremiah 13.4: 4 “Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”

Jeremiah 13.6: 6 After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”

Jeremiah 13.7: 7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

Jeremiah 13.9: 9 “Yahweh says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13.10: 10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

Jeremiah 13.11: 11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

Jeremiah 13.12: 12 “Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’

Jeremiah 13.13: 13 Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Jeremiah 13.14: 14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’”

Jeremiah 13.21: 21 What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you?

Jeremiah 14.1: 14This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Jeremiah 14.11: 11 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.

Jeremiah 14.12: 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Jeremiah 14.13: 13 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”

Jeremiah 14.14: 14 Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

Jeremiah 14.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.

Jeremiah 14.16: 16 The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

Jeremiah 14.22: 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain?

Jeremiah 15.1: 15Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Jeremiah 15.2: 2 It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:

Jeremiah 15.3: 3 “I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

Jeremiah 15.4: 4 I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday.

Jeremiah 15.10: 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife,

Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil

Jeremiah 15.13: 13 I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price,

Jeremiah 15.14: 14 I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know;

Jeremiah 15.17: 17 I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice.

Jeremiah 16.2: 2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”

Jeremiah 16.3: 3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:

Jeremiah 16.4: 4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

Jeremiah 16.5: 5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

Jeremiah 16.6: 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 16.7: 7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

Jeremiah 16.8: 8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

Jeremiah 16.9: 9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 16.10: 10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’

Jeremiah 16.11: 11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

Jeremiah 16.12: 12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Jeremiah 16.13: 13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

Jeremiah 16.14: 14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

Jeremiah 16.15: 15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

Jeremiah 16.16: 16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 16.17: 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

Jeremiah 16.18: 18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

Jeremiah 17.4: 4 You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you.

Jeremiah 17.16: 16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you.

Jeremiah 17.19: 19 Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 17.20: 20 Tell them, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

Jeremiah 17.21: 21 Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 17.22: 22 Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

Jeremiah 17.23: 23 But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

Jeremiah 17.24: 24 It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

Jeremiah 17.25: 25 then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.

Jeremiah 17.26: 26 They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 17.27: 27 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”

Jeremiah 18.2: 2 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”

Jeremiah 18.3: 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.

Jeremiah 18.4: 4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jeremiah 18.6: 6 “House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Jeremiah 18.7: 7 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

Jeremiah 18.8: 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Jeremiah 18.9: 9 At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

Jeremiah 18.10: 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

Jeremiah 18.11: 11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’

Jeremiah 18.12: 12 But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Jeremiah 18.18: 18 Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 18.23: 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me.

Jeremiah 19.1: 19Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Jeremiah 19.2: 2 and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.

Jeremiah 19.3: 3 Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.

Jeremiah 19.4: 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Jeremiah 19.5: 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.

Jeremiah 19.6: 6 Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.

Jeremiah 19.7: 7 “‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 19.8: 8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

Jeremiah 19.9: 9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’

Jeremiah 19.10: 10 “Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,

Jeremiah 19.11: 11 and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

Jeremiah 19.12: 12 This is what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.

Jeremiah 19.13: 13 The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

Jeremiah 19.14: 14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

Jeremiah 19.15: 15 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”

Jeremiah 20.1: 20Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

Jeremiah 20.2: 2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 20.3: 3 On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.1

Jeremiah 20.4: 4 For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.

Jeremiah 20.5: 5 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 20.6: 6 You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’”

Jeremiah 21.1: 21The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

Jeremiah 21.2: 2 “Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us.”

Jeremiah 21.4: 4 ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.

Jeremiah 21.5: 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.

Jeremiah 21.6: 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.

Jeremiah 21.7: 7 Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.”’

Jeremiah 21.8: 8 “You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Jeremiah 21.9: 9 He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.

Jeremiah 21.10: 10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.”’

Jeremiah 21.11: 11 “Concerning the house of the king of Judah, hear Yahweh’s word:

Jeremiah 21.14: 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh;

Jeremiah 22.1: 22Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word, there:

Jeremiah 22.2: 2 ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

Jeremiah 22.3: 3 Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22.4: 4 For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, his servants, and his people.

Jeremiah 22.5: 5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”

Jeremiah 22.8: 8 “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’

Jeremiah 22.9: 9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”

Jeremiah 22.11: 11 For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.

Jeremiah 22.12: 12 But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”

Jeremiah 22.14: 14 who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’

Jeremiah 22.18: 18 Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Jeremiah 22.24: 24 “As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.

Jeremiah 22.25: 25 I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 22.26: 26 I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

Jeremiah 22.27: 27 But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”

Jeremiah 23.1: 23“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 23.2: 2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 23.3: 3 “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.

Jeremiah 23.4: 4 I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 23.7: 7 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

Jeremiah 23.8: 8 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”

Jeremiah 23.12: 12 Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness.

Jeremiah 23.14: 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing:

for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Jeremiah 23.25: 25 “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

Jeremiah 23.26: 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Jeremiah 23.27: 27 They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.

Jeremiah 23.28: 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 23.29: 29 “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 23.30: 30 “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

Jeremiah 23.31: 31 Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

Jeremiah 23.32: 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 23.33: 33 “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’

Jeremiah 23.34: 34 As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.

Jeremiah 23.35: 35 You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’

Jeremiah 23.36: 36 You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

Jeremiah 23.37: 37 You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’

Jeremiah 23.38: 38 Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh;’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh;”

Jeremiah 23.39: 39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

Jeremiah 23.40: 40 I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”

Jeremiah 24.1: 24Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 24.2: 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten.”

Jeremiah 24.5: 5 “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

Jeremiah 24.6: 6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Jeremiah 24.7: 7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

Jeremiah 24.8: 8 “‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 24.9: 9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.

Jeremiah 24.10: 10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”

Jeremiah 25.1: 25The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

Jeremiah 25.2: 2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 25.3: 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

Jeremiah 25.4: 4 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),

Jeremiah 25.5: 5 saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.

Jeremiah 25.6: 6 Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.”

Jeremiah 25.7: 7 “Yet you have not listened to me,” says Yahweh; “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.”

Jeremiah 25.8: 8 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words,

Jeremiah 25.9: 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 25.10: 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 25.11: 11 This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25.12: 12 “It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.

Jeremiah 25.13: 13 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

Jeremiah 25.14: 14 For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”

Jeremiah 25.15: 15 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Jeremiah 25.16: 16 They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Jeremiah 25.17: 17 Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:

Jeremiah 25.18: 18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;

Jeremiah 25.19: 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;

Jeremiah 25.20: 20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Jeremiah 25.22: 22 and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

Jeremiah 25.23: 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;

Jeremiah 25.24: 24 and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;

Jeremiah 25.25: 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

Jeremiah 25.26: 26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them.

Jeremiah 25.27: 27 “You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Jeremiah 25.28: 28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

Jeremiah 25.29: 29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’

Jeremiah 25.30: 30 “Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them,

Jeremiah 25.33: 33 The slain of Yahweh will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground.

for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression,

Jeremiah 26.1: 26In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh:

Jeremiah 26.2: 2 “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

Jeremiah 26.3: 3 It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’

Jeremiah 26.4: 4 You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

Jeremiah 26.5: 5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

Jeremiah 26.6: 6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

Jeremiah 26.7: 7 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 26.8: 8 When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

Jeremiah 26.9: 9 Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 26.10: 10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 26.11: 11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

Jeremiah 26.12: 12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

Jeremiah 26.13: 13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 26.14: 14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.

Jeremiah 26.15: 15 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

Jeremiah 26.16: 16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

Jeremiah 26.17: 17 Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Jeremiah 26.18: 18 “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says:

Jeremiah 26.19: 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

Jeremiah 26.20: 20 There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 26.21: 21 When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.

Jeremiah 26.22: 22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;

Jeremiah 26.23: 23 and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 26.24: 24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

Jeremiah 27.1: 27In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Jeremiah 27.2: 2 Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.

Jeremiah 27.3: 3 Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah 27.4: 4 Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:

Jeremiah 27.5: 5 ‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Jeremiah 27.6: 6 Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.

Jeremiah 27.7: 7 All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.

Jeremiah 27.8: 8 “‘“‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

Jeremiah 27.9: 9 But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

Jeremiah 27.10: 10 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.

Jeremiah 27.11: 11 But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’”’”

Jeremiah 27.12: 12 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Jeremiah 27.13: 13 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 27.14: 14 Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.

Jeremiah 27.15: 15 For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Jeremiah 27.16: 16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.

Jeremiah 27.17: 17 Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

Jeremiah 27.18: 18 But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

Jeremiah 27.19: 19 For Yahweh of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

Jeremiah 27.20: 20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 27.21: 21 yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 27.22: 22 ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’”

Jeremiah 28.1: 28That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in Yahweh’s house, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

Jeremiah 28.2: 2 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 28.3: 3 Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon.

Jeremiah 28.4: 4 I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”

Jeremiah 28.5: 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in Yahweh’s house,

Jeremiah 28.6: 6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place.

Jeremiah 28.7: 7 Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:

Jeremiah 28.8: 8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.

Jeremiah 28.9: 9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.”

Jeremiah 28.10: 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.

Jeremiah 28.11: 11 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Yahweh says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the neck of all the nations within two full years.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Jeremiah 28.12: 12 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 28.13: 13 “Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “You have broken the bars of wood, but you have made in their place bars of iron.”

Jeremiah 28.14: 14 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. I have also given him the animals of the field.”’”

Jeremiah 28.15: 15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen, Hananiah! Yahweh has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 28.16: 16 Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’”

Jeremiah 28.17: 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Jeremiah 29.1: 29Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

Jeremiah 29.2: 2 (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

Jeremiah 29.3: 3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:

Jeremiah 29.4: 4 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Jeremiah 29.5: 5 “Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.

Jeremiah 29.6: 6 Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Jeremiah 29.7: 7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”

Jeremiah 29.8: 8 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

Jeremiah 29.9: 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 29.10: 10 For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jeremiah 29.11: 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29.12: 12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 29.13: 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29.14: 14 I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”

Jeremiah 29.15: 15 Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;”

Jeremiah 29.16: 16 Yahweh says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity;

Jeremiah 29.17: 17 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

Jeremiah 29.18: 18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 29.19: 19 because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 29.20: 20 Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Jeremiah 29.21: 21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes.

Jeremiah 29.22: 22 A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’

Jeremiah 29.23: 23 because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 29.25: 25 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

Jeremiah 29.26: 26 “Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Jeremiah 29.27: 27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,

Jeremiah 29.28: 28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”

Jeremiah 29.29: 29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

Jeremiah 29.31: 31 “Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;”

Jeremiah 29.32: 32 therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.”’”

Jeremiah 30.2: 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

Jeremiah 30.3: 3 For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”

Jeremiah 30.4: 4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

Jeremiah 30.8: 8 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck,

Jeremiah 30.10: 10 Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 30.24: 24 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished,

Jeremiah 31.1: 31“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Jeremiah 31.2: 2 Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”

Jeremiah 31.6: 6 For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,

Jeremiah 31.23: 23 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

Jeremiah 31.24: 24 Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.

Jeremiah 31.25: 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Jeremiah 31.27: 27 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.

Jeremiah 31.28: 28 It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 31.30: 30 But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

Jeremiah 31.32: 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;

Jeremiah 31.33: 33 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”

Jeremiah 31.36: 36 “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh,

“then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”

then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 31.38: 38 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

Jeremiah 31.39: 39 The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.

Jeremiah 31.40: 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”

Jeremiah 32.1: 32The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 32.2: 2 Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

Jeremiah 32.3: 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

Jeremiah 32.4: 4 and Zedekiah king of Judah won’t escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;

Jeremiah 32.5: 5 and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says Yahweh: “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?”’”

Jeremiah 32.7: 7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”

Jeremiah 32.8: 8 “So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’

Jeremiah 32.9: 9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels1 of silver.

Jeremiah 32.10: 10 I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

Jeremiah 32.11: 11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

Jeremiah 32.12: 12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 32.14: 14 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.’

Jeremiah 32.15: 15 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.’

Jeremiah 32.16: 16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Jeremiah 32.17: 17 “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

Jeremiah 32.18: 18 You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

Jeremiah 32.19: 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Jeremiah 32.20: 20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;

Jeremiah 32.21: 21 and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

Jeremiah 32.22: 22 and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jeremiah 32.23: 23 They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them.

Jeremiah 32.24: 24 “Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.

Jeremiah 32.25: 25 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

Jeremiah 32.27: 27 “Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

Jeremiah 32.28: 28 Therefore Yahweh says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

Jeremiah 32.29: 29 The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 32.30: 30 “For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 32.31: 31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,

Jeremiah 32.32: 32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 32.33: 33 They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 32.34: 34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 32.35: 35 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”

Jeremiah 32.36: 36 Now therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning this city, about which you say, “It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:”

Jeremiah 32.37: 37 “Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely.

Jeremiah 32.39: 39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Jeremiah 32.40: 40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

Jeremiah 32.41: 41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

Jeremiah 32.42: 42 For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

Jeremiah 32.43: 43 Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’

Jeremiah 32.44: 44 Men will buy fields for money, sign the deeds, seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 33.1: 33Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,

Jeremiah 33.2: 2 “Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:

Jeremiah 33.3: 3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Jeremiah 33.4: 4 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;

Jeremiah 33.5: 5 while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

Jeremiah 33.6: 6 ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Jeremiah 33.7: 7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Jeremiah 33.8: 8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

Jeremiah 33.9: 9 This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’”

Jeremiah 33.10: 10 Yahweh says: “Yet again there will be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’

Jeremiah 33.11: 11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 33.12: 12 Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Jeremiah 33.13: 13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts them,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 33.14: 14 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

Jeremiah 33.17: 17 For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 33.18: 18 The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”

Jeremiah 33.20: 20 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;

Jeremiah 33.21: 21 then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Jeremiah 33.22: 22 As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’”

Jeremiah 33.24: 24 “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

Jeremiah 33.25: 25 Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

Jeremiah 33.26: 26 then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

Jeremiah 34.1: 34The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying:

Jeremiah 34.2: 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 34.3: 3 You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon.”’

Jeremiah 34.4: 4 “Yet hear Yahweh’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Yahweh says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the sword.

Jeremiah 34.5: 5 You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says Yahweh.”

Jeremiah 34.6: 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 34.7: 7 when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.

Jeremiah 34.8: 8 The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

Jeremiah 34.9: 9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

Jeremiah 34.10: 10 All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go;

Jeremiah 34.11: 11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Jeremiah 34.12: 12 Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Jeremiah 34.13: 13 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

Jeremiah 34.14: 14 At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

Jeremiah 34.15: 15 You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

Jeremiah 34.16: 16 but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”

Jeremiah 34.17: 17 Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 34.18: 18 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:

Jeremiah 34.19: 19 the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;

Jeremiah 34.20: 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 34.21: 21 “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.

Jeremiah 34.22: 22 Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 35.1: 35The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 35.2: 2 “Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.”

Jeremiah 35.3: 3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, with his brothers, all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

Jeremiah 35.4: 4 and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

Jeremiah 35.5: 5 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”

Jeremiah 35.6: 6 But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

Jeremiah 35.7: 7 You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’

Jeremiah 35.8: 8 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

Jeremiah 35.9: 9 and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;

Jeremiah 35.10: 10 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Jeremiah 35.11: 11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come! Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’”

Jeremiah 35.13: 13 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 35.14: 14 “The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me.

Jeremiah 35.15: 15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

Jeremiah 35.16: 16 The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me.”’

Jeremiah 35.17: 17 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’”

Jeremiah 35.18: 18 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’

Jeremiah 35.19: 19 therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’”

Jeremiah 36.1: 36In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Jeremiah 36.2: 2 “Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Jeremiah 36.3: 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Jeremiah 36.4: 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all Yahweh’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.

Jeremiah 36.5: 5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 36.6: 6 Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

Jeremiah 36.7: 7 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

Jeremiah 36.8: 8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 36.9: 9 Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.

Jeremiah 36.10: 10 Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.

Jeremiah 36.11: 11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all Yahweh’s words,

Jeremiah 36.12: 12 he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

Jeremiah 36.13: 13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

Jeremiah 36.14: 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come.”

Jeremiah 36.15: 15 They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.”

Jeremiah 36.16: 16 Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”

Jeremiah 36.17: 17 They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”

Jeremiah 36.18: 18 Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”

Jeremiah 36.19: 19 Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”

Jeremiah 36.20: 20 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king.

Jeremiah 36.21: 21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.

Jeremiah 36.22: 22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month; and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.

Jeremiah 36.23: 23 When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Jeremiah 36.24: 24 The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

Jeremiah 36.25: 25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

Jeremiah 36.26: 26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

Jeremiah 36.27: 27 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 36.28: 28 “Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

Jeremiah 36.29: 29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’”’

Jeremiah 36.30: 30 Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Jeremiah 36.31: 31 I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.”’”

Jeremiah 36.32: 32 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

Jeremiah 37.1: 37Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

Jeremiah 37.2: 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 37.3: 3 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.”

Jeremiah 37.4: 4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

Jeremiah 37.5: 5 Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 37.7: 7 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.

Jeremiah 37.8: 8 The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.”’

Jeremiah 37.9: 9 “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.

Jeremiah 37.10: 10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’”

Jeremiah 37.11: 11 When the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

Jeremiah 37.12: 12 then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.

Jeremiah 37.13: 13 When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

Jeremiah 37.14: 14 Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.”

But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Jeremiah 37.15: 15 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

Jeremiah 37.16: 16 When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

Jeremiah 37.17: 17 then Zedekiah the king sent, and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from Yahweh?”

Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 37.18: 18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

Jeremiah 37.19: 19 Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?’

Jeremiah 37.20: 20 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

Jeremiah 37.21: 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38.1: 38Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,

Jeremiah 38.2: 2 “Yahweh says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’

Jeremiah 38.3: 3 Yahweh says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’”

Jeremiah 38.4: 4 Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Jeremiah 38.5: 5 Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

Jeremiah 38.6: 6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 38.7: 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

Jeremiah 38.8: 8 Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

Jeremiah 38.9: 9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 38.10: 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38.11: 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 38.12: 12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.”

Jeremiah 38.13: 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38.14: 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”

Jeremiah 38.15: 15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

Jeremiah 38.16: 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Jeremiah 38.17: 17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.

Jeremiah 38.18: 18 But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’”

Jeremiah 38.19: 19 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

Jeremiah 38.20: 20 But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 38.21: 21 But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

Jeremiah 38.22: 22 ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say,

Jeremiah 38.23: 23 They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’”

Jeremiah 38.24: 24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.

Jeremiah 38.25: 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’

Jeremiah 38.26: 26 then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”

Jeremiah 38.27: 27 Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Jeremiah 38.28: 28 So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Jeremiah 39.1: 39In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

Jeremiah 39.2: 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

Jeremiah 39.3: 3 All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 39.4: 4 When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

Jeremiah 39.5: 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

Jeremiah 39.6: 6 Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Jeremiah 39.7: 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 39.8: 8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39.9: 9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.

Jeremiah 39.10: 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

Jeremiah 39.11: 11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 39.12: 12 “Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”

Jeremiah 39.13: 13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, with Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;

Jeremiah 39.14: 14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived among the people.

Jeremiah 39.15: 15 Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Jeremiah 39.16: 16 “Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day.

Jeremiah 39.17: 17 But I will deliver you in that day,” says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

Jeremiah 39.18: 18 For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’”

Jeremiah 40.1: 40The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

Jeremiah 40.2: 2 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, “Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;

Jeremiah 40.3: 3 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

Jeremiah 40.4: 4 Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”

Jeremiah 40.5: 5 Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go.”

Jeremiah 40.6: 6 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

Jeremiah 40.7: 7 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;

Jeremiah 40.8: 8 then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men came to Gedaliah to Mizpah.

Jeremiah 40.9: 9 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.

Jeremiah 40.10: 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

Jeremiah 40.11: 11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

Jeremiah 40.12: 12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.

Jeremiah 40.13: 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

Jeremiah 40.14: 14 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?”

Jeremiah 40.15: 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

Jeremiah 40.16: 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”

Jeremiah 41.1: 41Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

Jeremiah 41.2: 2 Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

Jeremiah 41.3: 3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

Jeremiah 41.4: 4 The second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

Jeremiah 41.5: 5 men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 41.6: 6 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.”

Jeremiah 41.7: 7 It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

Jeremiah 41.8: 8 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.”

Jeremiah 41.9: 9 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.

Jeremiah 41.10: 10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all of the people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.

Jeremiah 41.11: 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

Jeremiah 41.12: 12 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

Jeremiah 41.13: 13 Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad.

Jeremiah 41.14: 14 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

Jeremiah 41.15: 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

Jeremiah 41.16: 16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, with the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

Jeremiah 41.17: 17 They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt

Jeremiah 41.18: 18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.

Jeremiah 42.1: 42Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,

Jeremiah 42.2: 2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

Jeremiah 42.3: 3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”

Jeremiah 42.4: 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”

Jeremiah 42.5: 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.

Jeremiah 42.6: 6 Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”

Jeremiah 42.8: 8 Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

Jeremiah 42.9: 9 and said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says:

Jeremiah 42.10: 10 ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

Jeremiah 42.11: 11 Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

Jeremiah 42.12: 12 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Jeremiah 42.13: 13 “‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,

Jeremiah 42.14: 14 saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:”’

Jeremiah 42.15: 15 now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;

Jeremiah 42.16: 16 then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.

Jeremiah 42.17: 17 So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’

Jeremiah 42.18: 18 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’

Jeremiah 42.19: 19 “Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.

Jeremiah 42.20: 20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

Jeremiah 42.21: 21 I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.

Jeremiah 42.22: 22 Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live there.”

Jeremiah 43.1: 43When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

Jeremiah 43.2: 2 then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

Jeremiah 43.3: 3 but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”

Jeremiah 43.4: 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.

Jeremiah 43.5: 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;

Jeremiah 43.6: 6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;

Jeremiah 43.7: 7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice: and they came to Tahpanhes.

Jeremiah 43.9: 9 “Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

Jeremiah 43.10: 10 and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

Jeremiah 43.11: 11 He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Jeremiah 43.12: 12 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

Jeremiah 43.13: 13 He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’”

Jeremiah 44.1: 44The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

Jeremiah 44.2: 2 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them,

Jeremiah 44.3: 3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

Jeremiah 44.4: 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”

Jeremiah 44.5: 5 But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.

Jeremiah 44.6: 6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’

Jeremiah 44.7: 7 “Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;

Jeremiah 44.8: 8 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 44.9: 9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 44.10: 10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

Jeremiah 44.11: 11 “Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

Jeremiah 44.12: 12 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Jeremiah 44.13: 13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

Jeremiah 44.14: 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’”

Jeremiah 44.15: 15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 44.16: 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

Jeremiah 44.17: 17 But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

Jeremiah 44.18: 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

Jeremiah 44.19: 19 “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”

Jeremiah 44.20: 20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,

Jeremiah 44.21: 21 “The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?

Jeremiah 44.22: 22 Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

Jeremiah 44.23: 23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”

Jeremiah 44.24: 24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!

Jeremiah 44.25: 25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her.”

Jeremiah 44.26: 26 “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”

Jeremiah 44.27: 27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.

Jeremiah 44.28: 28 Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

Jeremiah 44.29: 29 “‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’

Jeremiah 44.30: 30 Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.’”

Jeremiah 45.1: 45The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 45.3: 3 ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’

Jeremiah 45.4: 4 “You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

Jeremiah 45.5: 5 Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’”

Jeremiah 46.1: 46Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Jeremiah 46.2: 2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46.13: 13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 46.21: 21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall;

Jeremiah 46.25: 25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.

Jeremiah 46.26: 26 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 47.1: 47Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

Jeremiah 47.6: 6 “‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet?

Jeremiah 48.5: 5 For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.

For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

Jeremiah 48.7: 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,

Jeremiah 48.28: 28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.

Jeremiah 48.45: 45 “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;

Jeremiah 48.47: 47 “Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,”

“that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon;

Jeremiah 49.6: 6 “But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,”

Jeremiah 49.12: 12 For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.

Jeremiah 49.13: 13 For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

Jeremiah 49.18: 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,

Jeremiah 49.19: 19 “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation:

Jeremiah 49.20: 20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom;

The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 49.28: 28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says:

Jeremiah 49.34: 34 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 49.36: 36 I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky,

Jeremiah 50.1: 50The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

Jeremiah 50.5: 5 They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it,

and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;

Jeremiah 50.28: 28 Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,

Jeremiah 50.31: 31 “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies;

Jeremiah 50.33: 33 Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together.

Jeremiah 50.40: 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,

and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Jeremiah 51.24: 24 “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 51.25: 25 “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh,

the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden.

Jeremiah 51.35: 35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”

Jeremiah 51.47: 47 Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon;

Jeremiah 51.59: 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

Jeremiah 51.60: 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

Jeremiah 51.61: 61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,

Jeremiah 51.62: 62 and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’

Jeremiah 51.63: 63 It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.

Jeremiah 51.64: 64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’”

Jeremiah 52.1: 52Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Jeremiah 52.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Jeremiah 52.3: 3 For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.

Jeremiah 52.4: 4 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

Jeremiah 52.5: 5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Jeremiah 52.6: 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 52.7: 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,

Jeremiah 52.8: 8 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Jeremiah 52.9: 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

Jeremiah 52.10: 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

Jeremiah 52.11: 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52.12: 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52.13: 13 He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

Jeremiah 52.14: 14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

Jeremiah 52.15: 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

Jeremiah 52.16: 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

Jeremiah 52.17: 17 The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52.18: 18 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.

Jeremiah 52.19: 19 The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

Jeremiah 52.20: 20 They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight.

Jeremiah 52.21: 21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits;1 and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.

Jeremiah 52.22: 22 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits,2 with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.

Jeremiah 52.23: 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.

Jeremiah 52.24: 24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

Jeremiah 52.25: 25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.

Jeremiah 52.26: 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Jeremiah 52.27: 27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.

Jeremiah 52.28: 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:

Jeremiah 52.29: 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;

Jeremiah 52.30: 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people:

Jeremiah 52.31: 31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.

Jeremiah 52.32: 32 He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

Jeremiah 52.33: 33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

Jeremiah 52.34: 34 For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

Lamentations 1.7: 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries

Lamentations 1.10: 10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;

Lamentations 1.15: 15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.

Lamentations 2.1: 2How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!

Lamentations 2.8: 8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.

Lamentations 2.14: 14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.

Lamentations 2.16: 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.

Lamentations 2.21: 21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.

Lamentations 2.22: 22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.

Lamentations 3.13: 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

Lamentations 3.22: 22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,

yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Lamentations 3.35: 35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

Lamentations 3.36: 36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

Lamentations 3.38: 38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Lamentations 3.41: 41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God1 in the heavens.

Lamentations 3.46: 46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Lamentations 4.4: 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.

Lamentations 4.6: 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,

Lamentations 4.9: 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;

Lamentations 4.10: 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.

Lamentations 4.22: 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.

Ezekiel 1.1: 1Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.1

Ezekiel 1.2: 2 In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

Ezekiel 1.3: 3 Yahweh’s2 word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

Ezekiel 1.4: 4 I looked, and behold,3 a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.

Ezekiel 1.5: 5 Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.

Ezekiel 1.7: 7 Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.

Ezekiel 1.8: 8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:

Ezekiel 1.9: 9 Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.

Ezekiel 1.10: 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 1.11: 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

Ezekiel 1.12: 12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went.

Ezekiel 1.13: 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.

Ezekiel 1.14: 14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Ezekiel 1.15: 15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

Ezekiel 1.16: 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

Ezekiel 1.17: 17 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went.

Ezekiel 1.18: 18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

Ezekiel 1.19: 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Ezekiel 1.20: 20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1.21: 21 When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1.22: 22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.

Ezekiel 1.23: 23 Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one toward the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side.

Ezekiel 1.24: 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 1.25: 25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 1.26: 26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire4 stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

Ezekiel 1.27: 27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

Ezekiel 1.28: 28 As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.

This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Ezekiel 2.1: 2He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

Ezekiel 2.2: 2 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.

Ezekiel 2.3: 3 He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

Ezekiel 2.4: 4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord1 Yahweh says.’

Ezekiel 2.5: 5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

Ezekiel 2.6: 6 You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 2.7: 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

Ezekiel 2.8: 8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

Ezekiel 2.9: 9 When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

Ezekiel 2.10: 10 He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.

Ezekiel 3.1: 3He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 3.3: 3 He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.”

Ezekiel 3.4: 4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

Ezekiel 3.5: 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 3.6: 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

Ezekiel 3.7: 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate1 and hard-hearted.

Ezekiel 3.8: 8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Ezekiel 3.9: 9 I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 3.10: 10 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

Ezekiel 3.11: 11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.

Ezekiel 3.12: 12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place.”

Ezekiel 3.13: 13 I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.

Ezekiel 3.14: 14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Ezekiel 3.15: 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

Ezekiel 3.17: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

Ezekiel 3.18: 18 When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 3.19: 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

Ezekiel 3.20: 20 “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 3.21: 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

Ezekiel 3.22: 22 Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

Ezekiel 3.23: 23 Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 3.24: 24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

Ezekiel 3.25: 25 But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.

Ezekiel 3.26: 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3.27: 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 4.1: 4“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 4.2: 2 Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

Ezekiel 4.3: 3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4.4: 4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4.5: 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4.6: 6 “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

Ezekiel 4.7: 7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4.8: 8 Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 4.9: 9 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

Ezekiel 4.10: 10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels1 a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4.11: 11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin.2 From time to time you shall drink.

Ezekiel 4.12: 12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”

Ezekiel 4.13: 13 Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

Ezekiel 4.14: 14 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Ezekiel 4.15: 15 Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”

Ezekiel 4.16: 16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

Ezekiel 4.17: 17 that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Ezekiel 5.1: 5“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5.2: 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5.3: 3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe.

Ezekiel 5.4: 4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5.5: 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.

Ezekiel 5.6: 6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’

Ezekiel 5.7: 7 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;

Ezekiel 5.8: 8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 5.9: 9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 5.10: 10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.

Ezekiel 5.11: 11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 5.12: 12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5.13: 13 “‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

Ezekiel 5.14: 14 “‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

Ezekiel 5.15: 15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

Ezekiel 5.16: 16 when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

Ezekiel 5.17: 17 I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’”

Ezekiel 6.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,

Ezekiel 6.3: 3 and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6.4: 4 Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Ezekiel 6.5: 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 6.6: 6 In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Ezekiel 6.7: 7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 6.8: 8 “‘“Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.

Ezekiel 6.9: 9 Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 6.10: 10 They will know that I am Yahweh. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”’

Ezekiel 6.11: 11 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!” Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezekiel 6.12: 12 He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.

Ezekiel 6.13: 13 You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6.14: 14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 7.2: 2 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 7.3: 3 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

Ezekiel 7.4: 4 My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 7.5: 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘An evil! A unique evil! Behold, it comes.

Ezekiel 7.6: 6 An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

Ezekiel 7.7: 7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.

Ezekiel 7.8: 8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

Ezekiel 7.9: 9 My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.

Ezekiel 7.10: 10 “‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.

Ezekiel 7.11: 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

Ezekiel 7.12: 12 The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

Ezekiel 7.13: 13 For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

Ezekiel 7.14: 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

Ezekiel 7.15: 15 “‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.

Ezekiel 7.16: 16 But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 7.18: 18 They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

Ezekiel 7.19: 19 They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 7.20: 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.

Ezekiel 7.21: 21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.

Ezekiel 7.22: 22 I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.

Ezekiel 7.23: 23 “‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 7.24: 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.

Ezekiel 7.25: 25 Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.

Ezekiel 7.26: 26 Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Ezekiel 7.27: 27 The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 8.1: 8In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.

Ezekiel 8.2: 2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

Ezekiel 8.3: 3 He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

Ezekiel 8.4: 4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

Ezekiel 8.5: 5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north.”

So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

Ezekiel 8.6: 6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”

Ezekiel 8.7: 7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 8.9: 9 He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”

Ezekiel 8.10: 10 So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

Ezekiel 8.11: 11 Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 8.12: 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”

Ezekiel 8.13: 13 He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”

Ezekiel 8.14: 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8.15: 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

Ezekiel 8.16: 16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

Ezekiel 8.17: 17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 8.18: 18 Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

Ezekiel 9.1: 9Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Ezekiel 9.2: 2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 9.3: 3 The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.

Ezekiel 9.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Ezekiel 9.5: 5 To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.

Ezekiel 9.6: 6 Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.”

Ezekiel 9.7: 7 He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!”

Ezekiel 9.8: 8 While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

Ezekiel 9.9: 9 Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

Ezekiel 9.10: 10 As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”

Ezekiel 9.11: 11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I have done as you have commanded me.”

Ezekiel 10.1: 10Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire1 stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Ezekiel 10.2: 2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.”

Ezekiel 10.3: 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Ezekiel 10.4: 4 Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.

Ezekiel 10.5: 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Ezekiel 10.6: 6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

Ezekiel 10.7: 7 The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

Ezekiel 10.8: 8 The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings.

Ezekiel 10.9: 9 I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

Ezekiel 10.10: 10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

Ezekiel 10.11: 11 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went.

Ezekiel 10.12: 12 Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.

Ezekiel 10.13: 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, “the whirling wheels”.

Ezekiel 10.14: 14 Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 10.15: 15 The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

Ezekiel 10.16: 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them.

Ezekiel 10.17: 17 When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

Ezekiel 10.18: 18 Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

Ezekiel 10.19: 19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Ezekiel 10.20: 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 10.21: 21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

Ezekiel 10.22: 22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.

Ezekiel 11.1: 11Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

Ezekiel 11.2: 2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Ezekiel 11.3: 3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

Ezekiel 11.5: 5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

Ezekiel 11.6: 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

Ezekiel 11.7: 7 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.

Ezekiel 11.8: 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 11.9: 9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

Ezekiel 11.10: 10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 11.11: 11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.

Ezekiel 11.12: 12 You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”

Ezekiel 11.13: 13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”

Ezekiel 11.15: 15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”

Ezekiel 11.16: 16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’

Ezekiel 11.17: 17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”

Ezekiel 11.18: 18 “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

Ezekiel 11.19: 19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Ezekiel 11.20: 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11.21: 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 11.22: 22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Ezekiel 11.23: 23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

Ezekiel 11.24: 24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives.

Ezekiel 11.25: 25 Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.

Ezekiel 12.2: 2 “Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12.3: 3 “Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12.4: 4 You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile.

Ezekiel 12.5: 5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

Ezekiel 12.6: 6 In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 12.7: 7 I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

Ezekiel 12.9: 9 “Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

Ezekiel 12.10: 10 “Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.”’

Ezekiel 12.11: 11 “Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

Ezekiel 12.12: 12 “‘The prince who is among them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.

Ezekiel 12.13: 13 I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

Ezekiel 12.14: 14 I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.

Ezekiel 12.15: 15 “‘They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 12.16: 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 12.18: 18 “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

Ezekiel 12.19: 19 Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

Ezekiel 12.20: 20 The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 12.22: 22 “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

Ezekiel 12.23: 23 Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;”’ but tell them, ‘“The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

Ezekiel 12.24: 24 For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 12.25: 25 For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 12.27: 27 “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’

Ezekiel 12.28: 28 “Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

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 13.5: 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.’”

Ezekiel 14.1: 14Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 14.3: 3 “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

Ezekiel 14.4: 4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

Ezekiel 14.5: 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’

Ezekiel 14.6: 6 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 14.7: 7 “‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.

Ezekiel 14.8: 8 I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 14.9: 9 “‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

Ezekiel 14.10: 10 They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

Ezekiel 14.11: 11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 14.13: 13 “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

Ezekiel 14.14: 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 14.15: 15 “If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

Ezekiel 14.16: 16 though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Ezekiel 14.17: 17 “Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’

Ezekiel 14.18: 18 though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.

Ezekiel 14.19: 19 “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

Ezekiel 14.20: 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

Ezekiel 14.21: 21 For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

Ezekiel 14.22: 22 Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.

Ezekiel 14.23: 23 They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 15.2: 2 “Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Ezekiel 15.3: 3 Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?

Ezekiel 15.4: 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?

Ezekiel 15.5: 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has been burned, will it yet be suitable for any work?”

Ezekiel 15.6: 6 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 15.7: 7 I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

Ezekiel 15.8: 8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.3: 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16.4: 4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.

Ezekiel 16.5: 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.

Ezekiel 16.6: 6 “‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

Ezekiel 16.7: 7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16.8: 8 “‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

Ezekiel 16.9: 9 “‘“Then washed I you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.

Ezekiel 16.10: 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

Ezekiel 16.11: 11 I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

Ezekiel 16.12: 12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 16.13: 13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

Ezekiel 16.14: 14 Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.15: 15 “‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.

Ezekiel 16.16: 16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be.

Ezekiel 16.17: 17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

Ezekiel 16.18: 18 You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

Ezekiel 16.19: 19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.20: 20 “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

Ezekiel 16.21: 21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

Ezekiel 16.22: 22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Ezekiel 16.23: 23 “‘“It has happened after all your wickedness. Woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh,

Ezekiel 16.24: 24 “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

Ezekiel 16.25: 25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

Ezekiel 16.26: 26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 16.27: 27 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

Ezekiel 16.28: 28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.

Ezekiel 16.29: 29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.

Ezekiel 16.30: 30 “‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

Ezekiel 16.31: 31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

Ezekiel 16.32: 32 “‘“A wife who commits adultery! Who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Ezekiel 16.33: 33 People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Ezekiel 16.34: 34 You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.”’

Ezekiel 16.36: 36 ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

Ezekiel 16.37: 37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

Ezekiel 16.38: 38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Ezekiel 16.39: 39 I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16.40: 40 They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Ezekiel 16.41: 41 They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.

Ezekiel 16.42: 42 So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more.

Ezekiel 16.43: 43 “‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

Ezekiel 16.44: 44 “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

Ezekiel 16.45: 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 16.46: 46 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.

Ezekiel 16.47: 47 Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

Ezekiel 16.48: 48 As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.

Ezekiel 16.49: 49 “‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16.50: 50 They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.

Ezekiel 16.51: 51 Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

Ezekiel 16.52: 52 You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

Ezekiel 16.53: 53 “‘“I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;

Ezekiel 16.54: 54 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

Ezekiel 16.55: 55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate.

Ezekiel 16.56: 56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

Ezekiel 16.57: 57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around.

Ezekiel 16.58: 58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.59: 59 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Ezekiel 16.60: 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 16.61: 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

Ezekiel 16.62: 62 I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;

Ezekiel 16.63: 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 17.2: 2 “Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 17.3: 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

Ezekiel 17.4: 4 He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 17.5: 5 “‘“He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.

Ezekiel 17.6: 6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.

Ezekiel 17.7: 7 “‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

Ezekiel 17.8: 8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’

Ezekiel 17.9: 9 “Say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.

Ezekiel 17.10: 10 Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.”’”

Ezekiel 17.12: 12 “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 17.13: 13 He took some of the royal offspring,1 and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

Ezekiel 17.14: 14 that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

Ezekiel 17.15: 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

Ezekiel 17.16: 16 “‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

Ezekiel 17.17: 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

Ezekiel 17.18: 18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.

Ezekiel 17.19: 19 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.

Ezekiel 17.20: 20 I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

Ezekiel 17.21: 21 All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’

Ezekiel 17.22: 22 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Ezekiel 17.23: 23 I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

Ezekiel 17.24: 24 All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish.

Ezekiel 18.2: 2 “What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,

Ezekiel 18.3: 3 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.

Ezekiel 18.4: 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

Ezekiel 18.10: 10 “If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

Ezekiel 18.14: 14 “Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Ezekiel 18.18: 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 18.19: 19 “Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18.20: 20 The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Ezekiel 18.21: 21 “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 18.22: 22 None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

Ezekiel 18.23: 23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

Ezekiel 18.24: 24 “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Ezekiel 18.25: 25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Ezekiel 18.26: 26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

Ezekiel 18.27: 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

Ezekiel 18.28: 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 18.29: 29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

Ezekiel 18.30: 30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 18.31: 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 18.32: 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Ezekiel 20.1: 20In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 20.3: 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’

Ezekiel 20.4: 4 “Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.

Ezekiel 20.5: 5 Tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am Yahweh your God;’

Ezekiel 20.6: 6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Ezekiel 20.7: 7 I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’

Ezekiel 20.8: 8 “‘“But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20.9: 9 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20.10: 10 So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20.11: 11 I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

Ezekiel 20.12: 12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20.13: 13 “‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20.14: 14 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Ezekiel 20.15: 15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

Ezekiel 20.16: 16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20.17: 17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20.18: 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20.19: 19 I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.

Ezekiel 20.20: 20 Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

Ezekiel 20.21: 21 “‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20.22: 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Ezekiel 20.23: 23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Ezekiel 20.24: 24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 20.25: 25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

Ezekiel 20.26: 26 I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’

Ezekiel 20.27: 27 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Ezekiel 20.28: 28 For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 20.29: 29 Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah1 to this day.”’

Ezekiel 20.30: 30 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?

Ezekiel 20.31: 31 When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

Ezekiel 20.32: 32 “‘“That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’

Ezekiel 20.33: 33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.

Ezekiel 20.34: 34 I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

Ezekiel 20.35: 35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Ezekiel 20.36: 36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 20.37: 37 “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Ezekiel 20.38: 38 I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 20.39: 39 “‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Ezekiel 20.40: 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.

Ezekiel 20.41: 41 I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 20.42: 42 You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.

Ezekiel 20.43: 43 There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 20.44: 44 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 20.46: 46 “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.

Ezekiel 20.47: 47 Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

Ezekiel 20.48: 48 All flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.”’”

Ezekiel 20.49: 49 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”

Ezekiel 21.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 21.3: 3 Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21.4: 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.

Ezekiel 21.5: 5 All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’

Ezekiel 21.6: 6 “Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart1 and with bitterness.

Ezekiel 21.7: 7 It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 21.13: 13 “For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 21.19: 19 “Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

Ezekiel 21.20: 20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

Ezekiel 21.21: 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim.2 He looked in the liver.

Ezekiel 21.22: 22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

Ezekiel 21.23: 23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

Ezekiel 21.24: 24 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.

Ezekiel 21.25: 25 “‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

Ezekiel 21.26: 26 the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

Ezekiel 21.27: 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’

Ezekiel 21.28: 28 “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach:

Ezekiel 22.2: 2 “You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

Ezekiel 22.3: 3 You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

Ezekiel 22.4: 4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

Ezekiel 22.5: 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

Ezekiel 22.6: 6 “‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22.7: 7 In you have they treated father and mother with contempt.1 Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 22.8: 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22.9: 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Ezekiel 22.10: 10 In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

Ezekiel 22.11: 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

Ezekiel 22.12: 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 22.13: 13 “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

Ezekiel 22.14: 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

Ezekiel 22.15: 15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.

Ezekiel 22.16: 16 You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 22.18: 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22.19: 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22.20: 20 As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

Ezekiel 22.21: 21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 22.22: 22 As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’”

Ezekiel 22.24: 24 “Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’

Ezekiel 22.25: 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.

Ezekiel 22.26: 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 22.27: 27 Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22.28: 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22.29: 29 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Ezekiel 22.30: 30 “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Ezekiel 22.31: 31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 23.2: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

Ezekiel 23.3: 3 They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

Ezekiel 23.4: 4 Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

Ezekiel 23.5: 5 “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

Ezekiel 23.6: 6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Ezekiel 23.7: 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.

Ezekiel 23.8: 8 She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

Ezekiel 23.9: 9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

Ezekiel 23.10: 10 These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

Ezekiel 23.11: 11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.

Ezekiel 23.12: 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

Ezekiel 23.14: 14 “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,

Ezekiel 23.15: 15 dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

Ezekiel 23.16: 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23.17: 17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

Ezekiel 23.18: 18 So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

Ezekiel 23.19: 19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23.20: 20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Ezekiel 23.21: 21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.

Ezekiel 23.22: 22 “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

Ezekiel 23.23: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

Ezekiel 23.24: 24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.

Ezekiel 23.25: 25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.

Ezekiel 23.26: 26 They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

Ezekiel 23.27: 27 Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’

Ezekiel 23.28: 28 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.

Ezekiel 23.29: 29 They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

Ezekiel 23.30: 30 These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

Ezekiel 23.31: 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’

Ezekiel 23.35: 35 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”

Ezekiel 23.36: 36 Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

Ezekiel 23.37: 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.

Ezekiel 23.38: 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23.39: 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.

Ezekiel 23.40: 40 “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,

Ezekiel 23.41: 41 and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

Ezekiel 23.42: 42 “The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Ezekiel 23.43: 43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’

Ezekiel 23.44: 44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

Ezekiel 23.45: 45 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Ezekiel 23.46: 46 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

Ezekiel 23.47: 47 The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Ezekiel 23.48: 48 “‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

Ezekiel 23.49: 49 They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”

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,

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 24.16: 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 24.21: 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.”

Ezekiel 25.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 25.3: 3 Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

Ezekiel 25.4: 4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.

Ezekiel 25.5: 5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.6: 6 For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 25.7: 7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.8: 8 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’

Ezekiel 25.9: 9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,

Ezekiel 25.10: 10 to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.

Ezekiel 25.11: 11 I will execute judgments on Moab. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.12: 12 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”

Ezekiel 25.13: 13 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.

Ezekiel 25.14: 14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 25.15: 15 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;”

Ezekiel 25.16: 16 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

Ezekiel 25.17: 17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.”’”

Ezekiel 26.1: 26In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 26.2: 2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’

Ezekiel 26.3: 3 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

Ezekiel 26.4: 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Ezekiel 26.5: 5 She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.

Ezekiel 26.6: 6 Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 26.7: 7 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people.

Ezekiel 26.8: 8 He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

Ezekiel 26.9: 9 He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

Ezekiel 26.10: 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.

Ezekiel 26.11: 11 He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground.

Ezekiel 26.12: 12 They will make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters.

Ezekiel 26.13: 13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.

Ezekiel 26.14: 14 I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 26.15: 15 “The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you?

Ezekiel 26.16: 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Ezekiel 26.19: 19 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;

Ezekiel 26.20: 20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 26.21: 21 I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 27.3: 3 and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord Yahweh says:

They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.

Ezekiel 27.11: 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,

Ezekiel 27.12: 12 “‘“Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

Ezekiel 27.13: 13 “‘“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.14: 14 “‘“They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules.

Ezekiel 27.15: 15 “‘“The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange.

Ezekiel 27.16: 16 “‘“Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Ezekiel 27.17: 17 “‘“Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.18: 18 “‘“Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Ezekiel 27.19: 19 “‘“Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were among your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.20: 20 “‘“Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Ezekiel 27.21: 21 “‘“Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants.

Ezekiel 27.22: 22 “‘“The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

Ezekiel 27.23: 23 “‘“Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.

Ezekiel 27.24: 24 These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.25: 25 “‘“The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 28.2: 2 “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

Ezekiel 28.4: 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches,

Ezekiel 28.12: 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

Ezekiel 28.15: 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,

Ezekiel 28.16: 16 By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence,

Ezekiel 28.19: 19 All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you.

Ezekiel 28.21: 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 28.24: 24 “‘“There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 28.25: 25 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

Ezekiel 28.26: 26 They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”’”

Ezekiel 29.1: 29In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 29.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

Ezekiel 29.6: 6 “‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 29.7: 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”

Ezekiel 29.8: 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.

Ezekiel 29.9: 9 The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 29.10: 10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

Ezekiel 29.11: 11 No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.

Ezekiel 29.12: 12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”

Ezekiel 29.13: 13 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.

Ezekiel 29.14: 14 I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there.

Ezekiel 29.15: 15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations.

Ezekiel 29.16: 16 It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 29.17: 17 It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 29.18: 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

Ezekiel 29.19: 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 29.20: 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 29.21: 21 “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 30.5: 5 “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”

Ezekiel 30.7: 7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.

Ezekiel 30.9: 9 “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”

Ezekiel 30.20: 20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30.21: 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

Ezekiel 30.22: 22 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Ezekiel 30.23: 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezekiel 30.24: 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

Ezekiel 30.25: 25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30.26: 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 31.1: 31In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 31.5: 5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;

Ezekiel 31.10: 10 “Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Ezekiel 31.11: 11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Ezekiel 31.12: 12 Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezekiel 31.13: 13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches;

Ezekiel 31.14: 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

Ezekiel 31.15: 15 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol 1 I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Ezekiel 31.16: 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol2 with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31.17: 17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

Ezekiel 31.18: 18 “‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32.1: 32In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 32.2: 2 ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,

Ezekiel 32.12: 12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty.

Ezekiel 32.16: 16 “‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 32.17: 17 Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 32.18: 18 “Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

Ezekiel 32.19: 19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

Ezekiel 32.20: 20 They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.

Ezekiel 32.21: 21 The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol 1 with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32.22: 22 “Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword;

Ezekiel 32.23: 23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32.24: 24 “There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32.25: 25 They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.

Ezekiel 32.26: 26 “There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32.27: 27 They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32.28: 28 “But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32.29: 29 “There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32.30: 30 “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32.31: 31 “Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 32.32: 32 “For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 33.2: 2 “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

Ezekiel 33.3: 3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;

Ezekiel 33.4: 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

Ezekiel 33.5: 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul.

Ezekiel 33.6: 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

Ezekiel 33.7: 7 “So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.

Ezekiel 33.8: 8 When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 33.9: 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

Ezekiel 33.10: 10 “You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?”’

Ezekiel 33.11: 11 Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’

Ezekiel 33.12: 12 “You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.

Ezekiel 33.13: 13 When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

Ezekiel 33.14: 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

Ezekiel 33.15: 15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

Ezekiel 33.16: 16 None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.

Ezekiel 33.17: 17 “‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.

Ezekiel 33.18: 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

Ezekiel 33.19: 19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.

Ezekiel 33.20: 20 Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”

Ezekiel 33.21: 21 In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”

Ezekiel 33.22: 22 Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

Ezekiel 33.24: 24 “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

Ezekiel 33.25: 25 Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?

Ezekiel 33.26: 26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’

Ezekiel 33.27: 27 “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he who is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.

Ezekiel 33.28: 28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through.

Ezekiel 33.29: 29 Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’

Ezekiel 33.30: 30 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 33.31: 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Ezekiel 33.32: 32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

Ezekiel 33.33: 33 “When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

Ezekiel 34.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Ezekiel 34.3: 3 You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.

Ezekiel 34.4: 4 You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

Ezekiel 34.5: 5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

Ezekiel 34.6: 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

Ezekiel 34.8: 8 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

Ezekiel 34.10: 10 The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”

Ezekiel 34.11: 11 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Ezekiel 34.12: 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Ezekiel 34.13: 13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezekiel 34.14: 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34.15: 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 34.16: 16 “I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’

Ezekiel 34.17: 17 “As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

Ezekiel 34.18: 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?

Ezekiel 34.19: 19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’

Ezekiel 34.20: 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Ezekiel 34.21: 21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

Ezekiel 34.22: 22 therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.

Ezekiel 34.23: 23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34.24: 24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

Ezekiel 34.25: 25 “‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ezekiel 34.26: 26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

Ezekiel 34.27: 27 The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

Ezekiel 34.28: 28 They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 34.29: 29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.

Ezekiel 34.30: 30 They will know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 34.31: 31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 35.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 35.3: 3 and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

Ezekiel 35.4: 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 35.5: 5 “‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Ezekiel 35.6: 6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

Ezekiel 35.7: 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

Ezekiel 35.8: 8 I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.

Ezekiel 35.9: 9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 35.10: 10 “‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;’ whereas Yahweh was there:

Ezekiel 35.11: 11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35.12: 12 You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’

Ezekiel 35.13: 13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

Ezekiel 35.14: 14 The Lord Yahweh says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Ezekiel 35.15: 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 36.1: 36You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word.

Ezekiel 36.2: 2 The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’

Ezekiel 36.3: 3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

Ezekiel 36.4: 4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;

Ezekiel 36.5: 5 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.”’

Ezekiel 36.6: 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”

Ezekiel 36.7: 7 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’

Ezekiel 36.8: 8 “‘“But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Ezekiel 36.9: 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Ezekiel 36.10: 10 I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.

Ezekiel 36.11: 11 I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 36.12: 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”

Ezekiel 36.13: 13 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’

Ezekiel 36.14: 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 36.15: 15 “I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 36.17: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Ezekiel 36.18: 18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

Ezekiel 36.19: 19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.

Ezekiel 36.20: 20 When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

Ezekiel 36.21: 21 But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

Ezekiel 36.22: 22 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

Ezekiel 36.23: 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 36.24: 24 “‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Ezekiel 36.25: 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Ezekiel 36.26: 26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36.27: 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Ezekiel 36.28: 28 You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 36.29: 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

Ezekiel 36.30: 30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

Ezekiel 36.31: 31 “‘“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Ezekiel 36.32: 32 I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 36.33: 33 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.

Ezekiel 36.34: 34 The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

Ezekiel 36.35: 35 They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

Ezekiel 36.36: 36 Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

Ezekiel 36.37: 37 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

Ezekiel 36.38: 38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 37.1: 37Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

Ezekiel 37.2: 2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

Ezekiel 37.4: 4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

Ezekiel 37.5: 5 The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

Ezekiel 37.6: 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 37.7: 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Ezekiel 37.8: 8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.

Ezekiel 37.9: 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”

Ezekiel 37.10: 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

Ezekiel 37.11: 11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

Ezekiel 37.12: 12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37.13: 13 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.

Ezekiel 37.14: 14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 37.16: 16 “You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’

Ezekiel 37.17: 17 Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Ezekiel 37.18: 18 “When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’

Ezekiel 37.19: 19 tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.

Ezekiel 37.20: 20 The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’

Ezekiel 37.21: 21 Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land.

Ezekiel 37.22: 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

Ezekiel 37.23: 23 They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37.24: 24 “‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Ezekiel 37.25: 25 They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 37.26: 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

Ezekiel 37.27: 27 My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Ezekiel 37.28: 28 The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”

Ezekiel 38.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Ezekiel 38.3: 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

Ezekiel 38.4: 4 I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

Ezekiel 38.5: 5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Ezekiel 38.6: 6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.

Ezekiel 38.7: 7 “‘“Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

Ezekiel 38.8: 8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

Ezekiel 38.9: 9 You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”

Ezekiel 38.10: 10 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38.11: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Ezekiel 38.12: 12 to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’

Ezekiel 38.13: 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’

Ezekiel 38.14: 14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it?

Ezekiel 38.15: 15 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.

Ezekiel 38.16: 16 You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”

Ezekiel 38.17: 17 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?

Ezekiel 38.18: 18 It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.

Ezekiel 38.19: 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 38.20: 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 38.21: 21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Ezekiel 38.22: 22 I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

Ezekiel 38.23: 23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

Ezekiel 39.1: 39“You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

Ezekiel 39.2: 2 I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 39.3: 3 I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

Ezekiel 39.4: 4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.

Ezekiel 39.5: 5 You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.6: 6 “I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.7: 7 “‘“I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39.8: 8 Behold, it comes, and it will be done,” says the Lord Yahweh. “This is the day about which I have spoken.

Ezekiel 39.9: 9 “‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years;

Ezekiel 39.10: 10 so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.11: 11 “‘“It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’.

Ezekiel 39.12: 12 “‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39.13: 13 Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.14: 14 “‘“They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search.

Ezekiel 39.15: 15 Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.

Ezekiel 39.16: 16 Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land.”’

Ezekiel 39.17: 17 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.

Ezekiel 39.18: 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

Ezekiel 39.19: 19 You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

Ezekiel 39.20: 20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 39.21: 21 “I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

Ezekiel 39.22: 22 So the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.

Ezekiel 39.23: 23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

Ezekiel 39.24: 24 I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.

Ezekiel 39.25: 25 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

Ezekiel 39.26: 26 They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid,

Ezekiel 39.27: 27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

Ezekiel 39.28: 28 They will know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more.

Ezekiel 39.29: 29 I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 40.1: 40In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.

Ezekiel 40.2: 2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south.

Ezekiel 40.3: 3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

Ezekiel 40.4: 4 The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 40.5: 5 Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits1 long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Ezekiel 40.6: 6 Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.

Ezekiel 40.7: 7 Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

Ezekiel 40.8: 8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Ezekiel 40.9: 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Ezekiel 40.10: 10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

Ezekiel 40.11: 11 He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Ezekiel 40.12: 12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

Ezekiel 40.13: 13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door.

Ezekiel 40.14: 14 He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.

Ezekiel 40.15: 15 From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 40.16: 16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.

Ezekiel 40.17: 17 Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.

Ezekiel 40.18: 18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Ezekiel 40.19: 19 Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.

Ezekiel 40.20: 20 He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north.

Ezekiel 40.21: 21 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

Ezekiel 40.22: 22 Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them.

Ezekiel 40.23: 23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.

Ezekiel 40.24: 24 He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.

Ezekiel 40.25: 25 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

Ezekiel 40.26: 26 There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

Ezekiel 40.27: 27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.

Ezekiel 40.28: 28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;

Ezekiel 40.29: 29 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40.30: 30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40.31: 31 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.

Ezekiel 40.32: 32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;

Ezekiel 40.33: 33 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40.34: 34 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.

Ezekiel 40.35: 35 He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements;

Ezekiel 40.36: 36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

Ezekiel 40.37: 37 Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.

Ezekiel 40.38: 38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.

Ezekiel 40.39: 39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.

Ezekiel 40.40: 40 On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.

Ezekiel 40.41: 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices.

Ezekiel 40.42: 42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.

Ezekiel 40.43: 43 The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables.

Ezekiel 40.44: 44 Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.

Ezekiel 40.45: 45 He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house.

Ezekiel 40.46: 46 The room which faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.”

Ezekiel 40.47: 47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.

Ezekiel 40.48: 48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.

Ezekiel 40.49: 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

Ezekiel 41.1: 41He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.

Ezekiel 41.2: 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits;1 and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

Ezekiel 41.3: 3 Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

Ezekiel 41.4: 4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Ezekiel 41.5: 5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

Ezekiel 41.6: 6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house.

Ezekiel 41.7: 7 The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

Ezekiel 41.8: 8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

Ezekiel 41.9: 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

Ezekiel 41.10: 10 Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

Ezekiel 41.11: 11 The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

Ezekiel 41.12: 12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

Ezekiel 41.13: 13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

Ezekiel 41.14: 14 also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 41.15: 15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court

Ezekiel 41.16: 16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

Ezekiel 41.17: 17 to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

Ezekiel 41.18: 18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

Ezekiel 41.19: 19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around.

Ezekiel 41.20: 20 Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

Ezekiel 41.21: 21 As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.

Ezekiel 41.22: 22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 41.24: 24 The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

Ezekiel 41.25: 25 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

Ezekiel 41.26: 26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged.

Ezekiel 42.1: 42Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

Ezekiel 42.2: 2 Before the length of one hundred cubits1 was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 42.3: 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.

Ezekiel 42.4: 4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Ezekiel 42.5: 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

Ezekiel 42.6: 6 For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

Ezekiel 42.7: 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 42.8: 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 42.9: 9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

Ezekiel 42.10: 10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

Ezekiel 42.11: 11 The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

Ezekiel 42.12: 12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

Ezekiel 42.13: 13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Ezekiel 42.14: 14 When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people.”

Ezekiel 42.15: 15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around.

Ezekiel 42.16: 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

Ezekiel 42.17: 17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

Ezekiel 42.18: 18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Ezekiel 42.19: 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Ezekiel 42.20: 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

Ezekiel 43.1: 43Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

Ezekiel 43.2: 2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory.

Ezekiel 43.3: 3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 43.4: 4 Yahweh’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces toward the east.

Ezekiel 43.5: 5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.

Ezekiel 43.6: 6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

Ezekiel 43.7: 7 He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

Ezekiel 43.8: 8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

Ezekiel 43.9: 9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.

Ezekiel 43.10: 10 “You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

Ezekiel 43.11: 11 If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

Ezekiel 43.12: 12 “This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Ezekiel 43.13: 13 “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit1 is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span;2 and this shall be the base of the altar.

Ezekiel 43.14: 14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.

Ezekiel 43.15: 15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

Ezekiel 43.16: 16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

Ezekiel 43.17: 17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”

Ezekiel 43.18: 18 He said to me, “Son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.

Ezekiel 43.19: 19 You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 43.20: 20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way.

Ezekiel 43.21: 21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 43.22: 22 “On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

Ezekiel 43.23: 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.

Ezekiel 43.24: 24 You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

Ezekiel 43.25: 25 “Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.

Ezekiel 43.26: 26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it.

Ezekiel 43.27: 27 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 44.1: 44Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

Ezekiel 44.2: 2 Yahweh said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut.

Ezekiel 44.3: 3 As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.”

Ezekiel 44.4: 4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 44.5: 5 Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44.6: 6 You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations,

Ezekiel 44.7: 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44.8: 8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”

Ezekiel 44.9: 9 The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 44.10: 10 “‘“But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44.11: 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

Ezekiel 44.12: 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44.13: 13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

Ezekiel 44.14: 14 Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.

Ezekiel 44.15: 15 “‘“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 44.16: 16 “They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

Ezekiel 44.17: 17 “‘“It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

Ezekiel 44.18: 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat.

Ezekiel 44.19: 19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

Ezekiel 44.20: 20 “‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

Ezekiel 44.21: 21 None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

Ezekiel 44.22: 22 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Ezekiel 44.23: 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Ezekiel 44.24: 24 “‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.

Ezekiel 44.25: 25 “‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Ezekiel 44.27: 27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 44.28: 28 “‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.

Ezekiel 44.29: 29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Ezekiel 44.30: 30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

Ezekiel 44.31: 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

Ezekiel 45.1: 45“‘“Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around.

Ezekiel 45.2: 2 Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits1 for its pasture lands all around.

Ezekiel 45.3: 3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

Ezekiel 45.4: 4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45.5: 5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.

Ezekiel 45.6: 6 “‘“You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45.7: 7 “‘“What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

Ezekiel 45.8: 8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

Ezekiel 45.9: 9 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 45.10: 10 “You shall have just balances, a just ephah,2 and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45.11: 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer,3 and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.

Ezekiel 45.12: 12 The shekel4 shall be twenty gerahs.5 Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.6

Ezekiel 45.13: 13 “‘“This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

Ezekiel 45.14: 14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)7

Ezekiel 45.15: 15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 45.16: 16 “All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

Ezekiel 45.17: 17 It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 45.18: 18 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45.19: 19 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

Ezekiel 45.20: 20 So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.

Ezekiel 45.21: 21 “‘“In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Ezekiel 45.22: 22 On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 45.23: 23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 45.24: 24 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah8 for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin9 of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 45.25: 25 “‘“In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.”

Ezekiel 46.1: 46“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 46.2: 2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

Ezekiel 46.3: 3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

Ezekiel 46.4: 4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;

Ezekiel 46.5: 5 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin1 of oil to an ephah.2

Ezekiel 46.6: 6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.

Ezekiel 46.7: 7 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46.8: 8 When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.

Ezekiel 46.9: 9 “‘“But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.

Ezekiel 46.10: 10 The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.

Ezekiel 46.11: 11 “‘“In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah 3 for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46.12: 12 When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.

Ezekiel 46.13: 13 “‘“You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it.

Ezekiel 46.14: 14 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah,4 and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.

Ezekiel 46.15: 15 Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.”

Ezekiel 46.16: 16 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.

Ezekiel 46.17: 17 But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

Ezekiel 46.18: 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.”’”

Ezekiel 46.19: 19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.

Ezekiel 46.20: 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”

Ezekiel 46.21: 21 Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

Ezekiel 46.22: 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits5 long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.

Ezekiel 46.23: 23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.

Ezekiel 46.24: 24 Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

Ezekiel 47.1: 47He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

Ezekiel 47.2: 2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side.

Ezekiel 47.3: 3 When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits,1 and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

Ezekiel 47.4: 4 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.

Ezekiel 47.5: 5 Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through.

Ezekiel 47.7: 7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Ezekiel 47.8: 8 Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.

Ezekiel 47.9: 9 It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.

Ezekiel 47.10: 10 It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.

Ezekiel 47.11: 11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.

Ezekiel 47.12: 12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Ezekiel 47.13: 13 The Lord Yahweh says: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

Ezekiel 47.14: 14 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers. This land will fall to you for inheritance.

“On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

Ezekiel 47.16: 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

Ezekiel 47.17: 17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

Ezekiel 47.18: 18 “The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

Ezekiel 47.19: 19 “The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

Ezekiel 47.20: 20 “The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

Ezekiel 47.21: 21 “So you shall divide this land to yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47.22: 22 It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47.23: 23 It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 48.1: 48“Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.2: 2 “By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.3: 3 “By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.4: 4 “By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.5: 5 “By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.6: 6 “By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.7: 7 “By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.8: 8 “By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.9: 9 “The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width.

Ezekiel 48.10: 10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.11: 11 It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Ezekiel 48.12: 12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites.

Ezekiel 48.13: 13 “Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.

Ezekiel 48.14: 14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

Ezekiel 48.15: 15 “The five thousand that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for pasture lands; and the city shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.16: 16 These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

Ezekiel 48.17: 17 The city shall have pasture lands: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

Ezekiel 48.18: 18 The remainder in the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

Ezekiel 48.19: 19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

Ezekiel 48.20: 20 All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.

Ezekiel 48.21: 21 “The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.22: 22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

Ezekiel 48.23: 23 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.24: 24 “By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.25: 25 “By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.26: 26 “By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.27: 27 “By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.28: 28 “By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.

Ezekiel 48.29: 29 “This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 48.30: 30 “These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure;

Ezekiel 48.31: 31 and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

Ezekiel 48.32: 32 “At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

Ezekiel 48.33: 33 “At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

Ezekiel 48.34: 34 “At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

Ezekiel 48.35: 35 “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

Daniel 1.1: 1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

Daniel 1.2: 2 The Lord1 gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; 2 and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

Daniel 1.3: 3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring3 and of the nobles;

Daniel 1.4: 4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 1.5: 5 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

Daniel 1.6: 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Daniel 1.7: 7 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

Daniel 1.8: 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Daniel 1.9: 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

Daniel 1.10: 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”

Daniel 1.11: 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

Daniel 1.12: 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

Daniel 1.13: 13 Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.”

Daniel 1.14: 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

Daniel 1.15: 15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

Daniel 1.16: 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.

Daniel 1.17: 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Daniel 1.18: 18 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 1.19: 19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Daniel 1.20: 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Daniel 2.1: 2In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

Daniel 2.2: 2 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

Daniel 2.3: 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”

Daniel 2.4: 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

Daniel 2.5: 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.

Daniel 2.6: 6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”

Daniel 2.7: 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

Daniel 2.8: 8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.

Daniel 2.9: 9 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

Daniel 2.10: 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

Daniel 2.11: 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

Daniel 2.12: 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Daniel 2.13: 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

Daniel 2.14: 14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2.15: 15 He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

Daniel 2.16: 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

Daniel 2.17: 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

Daniel 2.18: 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2.19: 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Daniel 2.24: 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”

Daniel 2.25: 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

Daniel 2.26: 26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”

Daniel 2.27: 27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;

Daniel 2.28: 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

Daniel 2.29: 29 “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.

Daniel 2.30: 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

Daniel 2.31: 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold,1 a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.

Daniel 2.32: 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

Daniel 2.34: 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Daniel 2.35: 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2.36: 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

Daniel 2.37: 37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

Daniel 2.38: 38 Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

Daniel 2.39: 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

Daniel 2.40: 40 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.

Daniel 2.41: 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

Daniel 2.42: 42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.

Daniel 2.43: 43 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.

Daniel 2.44: 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

Daniel 2.45: 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

Daniel 2.46: 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.

Daniel 2.47: 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”

Daniel 2.48: 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2.49: 49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

Daniel 3.1: 3Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,1 and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3.2: 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3.3: 3 Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Daniel 3.4: 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 3.5: 5 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

Daniel 3.6: 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

Daniel 3.7: 7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3.8: 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Daniel 3.10: 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;

Daniel 3.11: 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.12: 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Daniel 3.13: 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Daniel 3.14: 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

Daniel 3.15: 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 3.16: 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Daniel 3.17: 17 If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Daniel 3.18: 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Daniel 3.19: 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Daniel 3.20: 20 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.21: 21 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.22: 22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel 3.23: 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.24: 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”

Daniel 3.25: 25 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

Daniel 3.26: 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”

Daniel 3.27: 27 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Daniel 3.28: 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Daniel 3.29: 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Daniel 3.30: 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 4.2: 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

Daniel 4.4: 4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

Daniel 4.5: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Daniel 4.6: 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

Daniel 4.7: 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.

Daniel 4.8: 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,

Daniel 4.9: 9 “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Daniel 4.10: 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.

Daniel 4.11: 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

Daniel 4.12: 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

Daniel 4.13: 13 “I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

Daniel 4.14: 14 He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Daniel 4.15: 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.

Daniel 4.16: 16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.

Daniel 4.17: 17 “‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Daniel 4.18: 18 “This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

Daniel 4.19: 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.”

Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

Daniel 4.20: 20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

Daniel 4.21: 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

Daniel 4.22: 22 it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

Daniel 4.23: 23 “Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

Daniel 4.24: 24 “This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

Daniel 4.25: 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

Daniel 4.26: 26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.

Daniel 4.27: 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Daniel 4.29: 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

Daniel 4.30: 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 4.31: 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

Daniel 4.32: 32 You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”

Daniel 4.33: 33 This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 4.34: 34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever;

Daniel 4.36: 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

Daniel 4.37: 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 5.1: 5Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Daniel 5.2: 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

Daniel 5.3: 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 5.4: 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Daniel 5.5: 5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Daniel 5.6: 6 Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

Daniel 5.7: 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 5.8: 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.

Daniel 5.9: 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

Daniel 5.10: 10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Daniel 5.11: 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

Daniel 5.12: 12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

Daniel 5.13: 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

Daniel 5.14: 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.

Daniel 5.15: 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

Daniel 5.16: 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 5.17: 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Daniel 5.18: 18 “You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

Daniel 5.19: 19 Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

Daniel 5.20: 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Daniel 5.21: 21 He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

Daniel 5.22: 22 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Daniel 5.23: 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Daniel 5.24: 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

Daniel 5.25: 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

Daniel 5.28: 28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5.29: 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 5.31: 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 6.1: 6It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

Daniel 6.2: 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

Daniel 6.3: 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Daniel 6.4: 4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Daniel 6.5: 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

Daniel 6.6: 6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Daniel 6.7: 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Daniel 6.8: 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel 6.10: 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Daniel 6.11: 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

Daniel 6.12: 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”

The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel 6.13: 13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Daniel 6.14: 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Daniel 6.15: 15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

Daniel 6.16: 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Daniel 6.17: 17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Daniel 6.18: 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Daniel 6.19: 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

Daniel 6.20: 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Daniel 6.22: 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Daniel 6.23: 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Daniel 6.24: 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Daniel 6.25: 25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:

Daniel 6.26: 26 “I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;

Daniel 6.28: 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Daniel 7.1: 7In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

Daniel 7.2: 2 Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.

Daniel 7.3: 3 Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.

Daniel 7.4: 4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.

Daniel 7.5: 5 “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’

Daniel 7.6: 6 “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Daniel 7.7: 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.

Daniel 7.8: 8 “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Daniel 7.11: 11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

Daniel 7.12: 12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

Daniel 7.13: 13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Daniel 7.14: 14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

Daniel 7.15: 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Daniel 7.16: 16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.

Daniel 7.17: 17 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

Daniel 7.18: 18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

Daniel 7.19: 19 “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

Daniel 7.20: 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.

Daniel 7.21: 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,

Daniel 7.22: 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Daniel 7.23: 23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Daniel 7.24: 24 As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.

Daniel 7.25: 25 He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Daniel 7.26: 26 “‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

Daniel 7.27: 27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

Daniel 7.28: 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

Daniel 8.1: 8In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

Daniel 8.2: 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

Daniel 8.3: 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

Daniel 8.4: 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.

Daniel 8.5: 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

Daniel 8.6: 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

Daniel 8.7: 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.

Daniel 8.8: 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

Daniel 8.9: 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.

Daniel 8.10: 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.

Daniel 8.11: 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

Daniel 8.12: 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Daniel 8.13: 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”

Daniel 8.14: 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”

Daniel 8.15: 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.

Daniel 8.16: 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”

Daniel 8.17: 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

Daniel 8.18: 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Daniel 8.19: 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

Daniel 8.20: 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8.21: 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel 8.22: 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

Daniel 8.23: 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

Daniel 8.24: 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

Daniel 8.25: 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.

Daniel 8.26: 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”

Daniel 8.27: 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

Daniel 9.1: 9In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

Daniel 9.2: 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word1 came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

Daniel 9.3: 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

“Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Daniel 9.5: 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Daniel 9.6: 6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Daniel 9.7: 7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Daniel 9.8: 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

Daniel 9.9: 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

Daniel 9.10: 10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Daniel 9.11: 11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.

“Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

Daniel 9.12: 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

Daniel 9.13: 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

Daniel 9.14: 14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Daniel 9.15: 15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

Daniel 9.16: 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

Daniel 9.17: 17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Daniel 9.18: 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Daniel 9.19: 19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Daniel 9.20: 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Daniel 9.21: 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

Daniel 9.22: 22 He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.

Daniel 9.23: 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

Daniel 9.24: 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Daniel 9.25: 25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,2 the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

Daniel 9.26: 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One3 will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Daniel 9.27: 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”

Daniel 10.1: 10In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

Daniel 10.3: 3 I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Daniel 10.4: 4 In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,

Daniel 10.5: 5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz.

Daniel 10.6: 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.

Daniel 10.7: 7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.

Daniel 10.8: 8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.

Daniel 10.9: 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

Daniel 10.10: 10 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.

Daniel 10.11: 11 He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

Daniel 10.12: 12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

Daniel 10.13: 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia.

Daniel 10.14: 14 Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

Daniel 10.15: 15 When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

Daniel 10.16: 16 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.

Daniel 10.17: 17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”

Daniel 10.18: 18 Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.

Daniel 10.19: 19 He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.”

When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

Daniel 10.20: 20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.

Daniel 10.21: 21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.

Daniel 11.1: 11“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

Daniel 11.2: 2 “Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.

Daniel 11.3: 3 A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

Daniel 11.4: 4 When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

Daniel 11.5: 5 “The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.

Daniel 11.6: 6 At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.

Daniel 11.7: 7 “But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.

Daniel 11.8: 8 He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north.

Daniel 11.9: 9 He will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land.

Daniel 11.10: 10 His sons will wage war, and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through. They will return and wage war, even to his fortress.

Daniel 11.11: 11 “The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.

Daniel 11.12: 12 The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.

Daniel 11.13: 13 The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.

Daniel 11.14: 14 “In those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the children of the violent among your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will fall.

Daniel 11.15: 15 So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.

Daniel 11.16: 16 But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand.

Daniel 11.17: 17 He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand, and won’t be for him.

Daniel 11.18: 18 After this he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many; but a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn on him.

Daniel 11.19: 19 Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

Daniel 11.20: 20 “Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.

Daniel 11.21: 21 “In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Daniel 11.22: 22 The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant.

Daniel 11.23: 23 After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.

Daniel 11.24: 24 In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time.

Daniel 11.25: 25 “He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him.

Daniel 11.26: 26 Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain.

Daniel 11.27: 27 As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Daniel 11.28: 28 Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.

Daniel 11.29: 29 “He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.

Daniel 11.30: 30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.

Daniel 11.31: 31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.

Daniel 11.32: 32 He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.

Daniel 11.33: 33 “Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

Daniel 11.34: 34 Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.

Daniel 11.35: 35 Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

Daniel 11.36: 36 “The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

Daniel 11.37: 37 He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.

Daniel 11.38: 38 But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.

Daniel 11.39: 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for a price.

Daniel 11.40: 40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.

Daniel 11.41: 41 He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

Daniel 11.42: 42 He will also stretch out his hand on the countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape.

Daniel 11.43: 43 But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.

Daniel 11.44: 44 But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.

Daniel 11.45: 45 He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

Daniel 12.1: 12“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Daniel 12.2: 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Daniel 12.3: 3 Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Daniel 12.4: 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

Daniel 12.5: 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.

Daniel 12.6: 6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”

Daniel 12.7: 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.

Daniel 12.8: 8 I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”

Daniel 12.9: 9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

Daniel 12.10: 10 Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Daniel 12.11: 11 “From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.

Daniel 12.12: 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

Daniel 12.13: 13 “But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”

Hosea 1.1: 1Yahweh’s1 word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Hosea 1.2: 2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

Hosea 1.3: 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Hosea 1.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

Hosea 1.5: 5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah2; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

Hosea 1.7: 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God,3 and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

Hosea 1.9: 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi4; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

Hosea 1.10: 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Hosea 1.11: 11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

Hosea 2.8: 8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

Hosea 2.18: 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,

Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

Hosea 2.22: 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;

Hosea 3.1: 3Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

Hosea 3.2: 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer 1 and a half of barley.

Hosea 3.3: 3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”

Hosea 3.4: 4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

Hosea 3.5: 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Hosea 4.2: 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;

Hosea 4.4: 4 “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

Hosea 4.16: 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer.

Hosea 5.6: 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;

Hosea 7.2: 2 They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.

Hosea 7.5: 5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.

Hosea 7.11: 11 “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding.

and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

Hosea 10.3: 3 Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh;

Hosea 10.5: 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven;

Hosea 10.8: 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed.

Hosea 13.10: 10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities?

Hosea 13.15: 15 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come,

Joel 1.8: 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Joel 1.9: 9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house.

for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Joel 2.12: 12 “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart,

Joel 2.17: 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar,

Joel 2.25: 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,

Joel 2.28: 28 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;

Joel 2.32: 32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved;

Joel 3.6: 6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,

Joel 3.7: 7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,

Joel 3.8: 8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,

Amos 1.1: 1The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

Amos 2.8: 8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;

and in the house of their God1 they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Amos 2.16: 16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,”

Amos 3.1: 3Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,

Amos 3.13: 13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.

Amos 3.14: 14 “For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,

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 4.9: 9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;

Amos 5.1: 5Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Amos 5.25: 25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

Amos 5.26: 26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

Amos 5.27: 27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

Amos 6.8: 8 “The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies:

Amos 6.10: 10 “When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

Amos 6.11: 11 “For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces,

Amos 6.14: 14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,”

“and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”

Amos 7.1: 7Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.

Amos 7.2: 2 When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Amos 7.3: 3 Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.

Amos 7.4: 4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

Amos 7.5: 5 Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Amos 7.6: 6 Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Amos 7.7: 7 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

Amos 7.9: 9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos 7.10: 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

Amos 7.11: 11 For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”

Amos 7.12: 12 Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

Amos 7.13: 13 but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

Amos 7.14: 14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

Amos 7.15: 15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

Amos 7.16: 16 Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’

Amos 7.17: 17 Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”

Amos 8.3: 3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Amos 9.1: 9I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

Amos 9.2: 2 Though they dig into Sheol,1 there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

Amos 9.3: 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

Amos 9.4: 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

Amos 9.5: 5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

Amos 9.6: 6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

Amos 9.7: 7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Amos 9.8: 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.

Amos 9.9: 9 “For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

Amos 9.10: 10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’

Amos 9.11: 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

Amos 9.12: 12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.

and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,”

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.

Jonah 1.2: 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 1.3: 3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

Jonah 1.4: 4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

Jonah 1.5: 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Jonah 1.6: 6 So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God!2 Maybe your God3 will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

Jonah 1.7: 7 They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Jonah 1.8: 8 Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”

Jonah 1.9: 9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God4 of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

Jonah 1.10: 10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.

Jonah 1.11: 11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.

Jonah 1.12: 12 He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”

Jonah 1.13: 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

Jonah 1.14: 14 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

Jonah 1.15: 15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

Jonah 1.16: 16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

Jonah 1.17: 17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 2.10: 10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

Jonah 3.2: 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

Jonah 3.3: 3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

Jonah 3.4: 4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Jonah 3.5: 5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

Jonah 3.6: 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3.7: 7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

Jonah 3.8: 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

Jonah 3.9: 9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

Jonah 3.10: 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

Jonah 4.2: 2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Jonah 4.3: 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4.5: 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

Jonah 4.6: 6 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.

Jonah 4.7: 7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

Jonah 4.8: 8 When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4.9: 9 God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”

Jonah 4.10: 10 Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

Jonah 4.11: 11 Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

Micah 1.1: 1Yahweh’s1 word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah 2.5: 5 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.

Micah 3.5: 5 Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains,

Micah 5.3: 3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth.

Micah 5.13: 13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from among you;

Micah 6.10: 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,

Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard:

Micah 7.12: 12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

Micah 7.13: 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein,

Nahum 1.1: 1A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 1.2: 2 Yahweh1 is a jealous God2 and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

Nahum 1.3: 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Nahum 1.4: 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

Nahum 1.5: 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Nahum 1.6: 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

Nahum 1.7: 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Nahum 1.8: 8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Nahum 1.9: 9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Nahum 1.10: 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Nahum 1.11: 11 There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Nahum 1.12: 12 Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

Nahum 1.13: 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

Nahum 1.14: 14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

Nahum 1.15: 15 Behold,3 on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

Nahum 2.1: 2He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

Nahum 2.2: 2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

Nahum 2.3: 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

Nahum 2.4: 4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

Nahum 2.5: 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

Nahum 2.7: 7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

Nahum 2.8: 8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.

Nahum 2.9: 9 Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

Nahum 2.10: 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Nahum 2.11: 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?

Nahum 2.12: 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

Nahum 2.13: 13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

Nahum 3.1: 3Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

Nahum 3.2: 2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

Nahum 3.3: 3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

Nahum 3.4: 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

Nahum 3.5: 5 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

Nahum 3.6: 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

Nahum 3.7: 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Nahum 3.8: 8 Are you better than No-Amon,1 who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

Nahum 3.9: 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

Nahum 3.10: 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Nahum 3.11: 11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Nahum 3.12: 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3.13: 13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

Nahum 3.14: 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

Nahum 3.15: 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

Nahum 3.16: 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Nahum 3.17: 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Nahum 3.18: 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

Nahum 3.19: 19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

Habakkuk 1.2: 2 Yahweh,1 how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

Habakkuk 1.3: 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Habakkuk 1.4: 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Habakkuk 1.5: 5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

Habakkuk 1.6: 6 For, behold,2 I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Habakkuk 1.7: 7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

Habakkuk 1.8: 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

Habakkuk 1.9: 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

Habakkuk 1.10: 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

Habakkuk 1.11: 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”

Habakkuk 1.12: 12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God,3 my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

Habakkuk 1.13: 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Habakkuk 1.14: 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Habakkuk 1.15: 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Habakkuk 1.16: 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

Habakkuk 1.17: 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 2.1: 2I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

Habakkuk 2.2: 2 Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

Habakkuk 2.3: 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Habakkuk 2.4: 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2.5: 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol,1 and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Habakkuk 2.6: 6 Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Habakkuk 2.7: 7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Habakkuk 2.8: 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

Habakkuk 2.9: 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Habakkuk 2.10: 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

Habakkuk 2.11: 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

Habakkuk 2.12: 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

Habakkuk 2.13: 13 Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Habakkuk 2.14: 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2.15: 15 “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

Habakkuk 2.16: 16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

Habakkuk 2.17: 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

Habakkuk 2.18: 18 “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

Habakkuk 2.19: 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.

Habakkuk 2.20: 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

Zephaniah 1.1: 1Yahweh’s1 word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

Zephaniah 1.2: 2 I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

Zephaniah 1.3: 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

Zephaniah 1.4: 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,

Zephaniah 1.5: 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

Zephaniah 1.6: 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Zephaniah 1.7: 7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord2 Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

Zephaniah 1.8: 8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.

Zephaniah 1.9: 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Zephaniah 1.10: 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Zephaniah 1.11: 11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

Zephaniah 1.12: 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Zephaniah 1.13: 13 Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

Zephaniah 1.14: 14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

Zephaniah 1.15: 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Zephaniah 1.16: 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Zephaniah 1.17: 17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

Zephaniah 1.18: 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 2.1: 2Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

Zephaniah 2.2: 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

Zephaniah 2.3: 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Zephaniah 2.4: 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

Zephaniah 2.5: 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2.6: 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Zephaniah 2.7: 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God,1 will visit them, and restore them.

Zephaniah 2.8: 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Zephaniah 2.9: 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

Zephaniah 2.10: 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

Zephaniah 2.11: 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

Zephaniah 2.13: 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

Zephaniah 2.14: 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

Zephaniah 2.15: 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Zephaniah 3.2: 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

Zephaniah 3.3: 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

Zephaniah 3.4: 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

Zephaniah 3.5: 5 Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Zephaniah 3.6: 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3.7: 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

Zephaniah 3.8: 8 “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zephaniah 3.9: 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Zephaniah 3.10: 10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.

Zephaniah 3.11: 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

Zephaniah 3.12: 12 But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

Zephaniah 3.13: 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

Zephaniah 3.14: 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

Zephaniah 3.15: 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

Zephaniah 3.16: 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

Zephaniah 3.17: 17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Zephaniah 3.18: 18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

Zephaniah 3.19: 19 Behold,1 at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.

Zephaniah 3.20: 20 At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

Haggai 1.1: 1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s1 word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

Haggai 1.2: 2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”

Haggai 1.4: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Haggai 1.5: 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1.6: 6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Haggai 1.8: 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

Haggai 1.9: 9 “You looked for much, and, behold,2 it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Haggai 1.10: 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

Haggai 1.11: 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

Haggai 1.12: 12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s3 voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

Haggai 1.13: 13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

Haggai 1.14: 14 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

Haggai 1.15: 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Haggai 2.1: 2In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Haggai 2.2: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

Haggai 2.3: 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?

Haggai 2.4: 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Haggai 2.5: 5 This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’

Haggai 2.6: 6 For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

Haggai 2.7: 7 and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.

Haggai 2.8: 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Haggai 2.9: 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

Haggai 2.10: 10 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Haggai 2.11: 11 “Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

Haggai 2.12: 12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’”

Haggai 2.13: 13 Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?”

Haggai 2.14: 14 Then Haggai answered, “‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

Haggai 2.15: 15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

Haggai 2.16: 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

Haggai 2.17: 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

Haggai 2.18: 18 ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.

Haggai 2.19: 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”

Haggai 2.20: 20 Yahweh’s word came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

Haggai 2.21: 21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.

Haggai 2.22: 22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

Haggai 2.23: 23 In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

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 1.3: 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 1.10: 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.”’”

He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

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 2.1: 2I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

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 3.1: 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.”

So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.

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 4.1: 4The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

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?”

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 4.9: 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 4.14: 14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord 1 of the whole earth.”

Zechariah 5.1: 5Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

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.”

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 6.1: 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 6.10: 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 7.1: 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 7.5: 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 7.9: 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 8.2: 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 8.19: 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 9.16: 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people;

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 12.1: 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 13.1: 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 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.

Malachi 1.3: 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

Malachi 1.4: 4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

Malachi 1.5: 5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”

Malachi 1.6: 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Malachi 1.7: 7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’

Malachi 1.8: 8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 1.9: 9 “Now, please entreat the favor of God,2 that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 1.10: 10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Malachi 1.11: 11 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 1.12: 12 “But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’

Malachi 1.13: 13 You say also, ‘Behold,3 what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

Malachi 1.14: 14 “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord4 a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

Malachi 2.2: 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Malachi 2.3: 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,1 and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

Malachi 2.4: 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 2.5: 5 “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

Malachi 2.6: 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

Malachi 2.7: 7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 2.8: 8 But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 2.9: 9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

Malachi 2.10: 10 Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Malachi 2.11: 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2.12: 12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 2.13: 13 This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Malachi 2.14: 14 Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Malachi 2.15: 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Malachi 2.16: 16 One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.

Malachi 2.17: 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Malachi 3.1: 3“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 3.2: 2 “But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Malachi 3.3: 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

Malachi 3.4: 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

Malachi 3.5: 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 3.6: 6 “For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Malachi 3.7: 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Malachi 3.8: 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

Malachi 3.9: 9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Malachi 3.10: 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

Malachi 3.11: 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 3.12: 12 “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 3.13: 13 “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

Malachi 3.14: 14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

Malachi 3.15: 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Malachi 3.16: 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

Malachi 3.17: 17 They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Malachi 3.18: 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

Malachi 4.1: 4“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Malachi 4.2: 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Malachi 4.3: 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 4.4: 4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

Malachi 4.5: 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Malachi 4.6: 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

Matthew 1.1: 1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,1 the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1.2: 2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

Matthew 1.3: 3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

Matthew 1.4: 4 Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.

Matthew 1.5: 5 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.

Matthew 1.6: 6 Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

Matthew 1.7: 7 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.

Matthew 1.8: 8 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.

Matthew 1.9: 9 Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.

Matthew 1.10: 10 Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.

Matthew 1.11: 11 Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.

Matthew 1.12: 12 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.

Matthew 1.13: 13 Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.

Matthew 1.14: 14 Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.

Matthew 1.15: 15 Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.

Matthew 1.16: 16 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus,2 who is called Christ.

Matthew 1.17: 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

Matthew 1.18: 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1.19: 19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

Matthew 1.20: 20 But when he thought about these things, behold,3 an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1.21: 21 She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus,4 for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 1.22: 22 Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

Matthew 1.24: 24 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;

Matthew 1.25: 25 and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

Matthew 2.1: 2Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men1 from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

Matthew 2.2: 2 “Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

Matthew 2.3: 3 When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Matthew 2.4: 4 Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

Matthew 2.5: 5 They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,

Matthew 2.7: 7 Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.

Matthew 2.8: 8 He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Matthew 2.9: 9 They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.

Matthew 2.10: 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

Matthew 2.11: 11 They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Matthew 2.12: 12 Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.

Matthew 2.13: 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

Matthew 2.14: 14 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

Matthew 2.15: 15 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”b

Matthew 2.16: 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Matthew 2.17: 17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

Matthew 2.19: 19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

Matthew 2.20: 20 “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”

Matthew 2.21: 21 He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

Matthew 2.22: 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,

Matthew 2.23: 23 and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

Matthew 3.1: 3In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

Matthew 3.4: 4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3.5: 5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

Matthew 3.7: 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 3.9: 9 Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Matthew 3.10: 10 “Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 3.11: 11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.1

Matthew 3.12: 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 3.13: 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan2 to John, to be baptized by him.

Matthew 3.14: 14 But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”

Matthew 3.15: 15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

Matthew 3.16: 16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Matthew 3.17: 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Matthew 4.1: 4Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 4.2: 2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

Matthew 4.3: 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Matthew 4.4: 4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”a

Matthew 4.5: 5 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Matthew 4.6: 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and,

Matthew 4.7: 7 Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”c

Matthew 4.8: 8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Matthew 4.9: 9 He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”

Matthew 4.10: 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,1 Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’” d

Matthew 4.11: 11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.

Matthew 4.12: 12 Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

Matthew 4.13: 13 Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Matthew 4.14: 14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

Matthew 4.17: 17 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Matthew 4.18: 18 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he2 saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Matthew 4.19: 19 He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

Matthew 4.21: 21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.

Matthew 4.22: 22 They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

Matthew 4.23: 23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Matthew 4.24: 24 The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

Matthew 4.25: 25 Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

Matthew 5.1: 5Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

Matthew 5.10: 10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake,

Matthew 5.11: 11 “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5.12: 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 5.13: 13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Matthew 5.14: 14 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Matthew 5.15: 15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

Matthew 5.16: 16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5.17: 17 “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Matthew 5.18: 18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter2 or one tiny pen stroke3 shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

Matthew 5.19: 19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5.20: 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5.21: 21 “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’d and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

Matthew 5.22: 22 But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause 4 will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ 5 will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. 6

Matthew 5.23: 23 “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

Matthew 5.24: 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Matthew 5.25: 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Matthew 5.26: 26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.7

Matthew 5.27: 27 “You have heard that it was said, 8 ‘You shall not commit adultery;’e

Matthew 5.28: 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Matthew 5.29: 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.9

Matthew 5.30: 30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.10

Matthew 5.31: 31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’f

Matthew 5.32: 32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Matthew 5.33: 33 “Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’g

Matthew 5.34: 34 but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

Matthew 5.35: 35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Matthew 5.36: 36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

Matthew 5.37: 37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Matthew 5.38: 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’h

Matthew 5.39: 39 But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Matthew 5.40: 40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

Matthew 5.42: 42 Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

Matthew 5.43: 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor i and hate your enemy.’11

Matthew 5.44: 44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Matthew 5.45: 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5.46: 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 5.47: 47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors12 do the same?

Matthew 5.48: 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 6.1: 6“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving1 before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 6.2: 2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6.3: 3 But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Matthew 6.4: 4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Matthew 6.5: 5 “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6.6: 6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Matthew 6.7: 7 In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Matthew 6.8: 8 Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

Matthew 6.9: 9 Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Matthew 6.10: 10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6.13: 13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’2

Matthew 6.14: 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 6.15: 15 But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6.16: 16 “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6.18: 18 so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6.19: 19 “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Matthew 6.20: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

Matthew 6.22: 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Matthew 6.23: 23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 6.24: 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Matthew 6.25: 25 Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6.26: 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Matthew 6.27: 27 “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment3 to his lifespan?

Matthew 6.28: 28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Matthew 6.29: 29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

Matthew 6.30: 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Matthew 6.31: 31 “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Matthew 6.32: 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 6.33: 33 But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6.34: 34 Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Matthew 7.2: 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Matthew 7.3: 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Matthew 7.4: 4 Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

Matthew 7.5: 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7.6: 6 “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Matthew 7.7: 7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Matthew 7.8: 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 7.9: 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Matthew 7.11: 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 7.12: 12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Matthew 7.13: 13 “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Matthew 7.14: 14 How1 narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

Matthew 7.15: 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Matthew 7.16: 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7.17: 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Matthew 7.18: 18 A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Matthew 7.19: 19 Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7.21: 21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 7.22: 22 Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

Matthew 7.23: 23 Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Matthew 7.24: 24 “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Matthew 7.25: 25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Matthew 7.26: 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Matthew 7.27: 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

Matthew 7.28: 28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

Matthew 8.1: 8When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

Matthew 8.2: 2 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

Matthew 8.3: 3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Matthew 8.4: 4 Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Matthew 8.5: 5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,

Matthew 8.6: 6 and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”

Matthew 8.8: 8 The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Matthew 8.9: 9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

Matthew 8.10: 10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, “Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.

Matthew 8.11: 11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

Matthew 8.12: 12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 8.13: 13 Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His servant was healed in that hour.

Matthew 8.14: 14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.

Matthew 8.15: 15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him. 1

Matthew 8.16: 16 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;

Matthew 8.17: 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”a

Matthew 8.18: 18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

Matthew 8.19: 19 A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

Matthew 8.20: 20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Matthew 8.21: 21 Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Matthew 8.22: 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Matthew 8.24: 24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

Matthew 8.25: 25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

Matthew 8.26: 26 He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Matthew 8.27: 27 The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Matthew 8.28: 28 When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, 2 two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

Matthew 8.29: 29 Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Matthew 8.31: 31 The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

Matthew 8.33: 33 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.

Matthew 8.34: 34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

Matthew 9.1: 9He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

Matthew 9.2: 2 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

Matthew 9.3: 3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

Matthew 9.4: 4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Matthew 9.5: 5 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’

Matthew 9.6: 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”

Matthew 9.8: 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew 9.9: 9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Matthew 9.10: 10 As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

Matthew 9.11: 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Matthew 9.12: 12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

Matthew 9.13: 13 But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’a for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”1

Matthew 9.14: 14 Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Matthew 9.15: 15 Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9.16: 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

Matthew 9.17: 17 Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

Matthew 9.18: 18 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

Matthew 9.20: 20 Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe2 of his garment;

Matthew 9.21: 21 for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”

Matthew 9.22: 22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

Matthew 9.23: 23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,

Matthew 9.24: 24 he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

Matthew 9.25: 25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

Matthew 9.27: 27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”

Matthew 9.28: 28 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

Matthew 9.29: 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

Matthew 9.30: 30 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

Matthew 9.32: 32 As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.

Matthew 9.33: 33 When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

Matthew 9.34: 34 But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

Matthew 9.35: 35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Matthew 9.36: 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed3 and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 9.37: 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Matthew 9.38: 38 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

Matthew 10.1: 10He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

Matthew 10.2: 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

Matthew 10.3: 3 Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called1 Thaddaeus;

Matthew 10.5: 5 Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

Matthew 10.7: 7 As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

Matthew 10.8: 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,2 and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

Matthew 10.10: 10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Matthew 10.11: 11 Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.

Matthew 10.13: 13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10.14: 14 Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

Matthew 10.15: 15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

Matthew 10.16: 16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 10.17: 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Matthew 10.18: 18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Matthew 10.19: 19 But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

Matthew 10.20: 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Matthew 10.21: 21 “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Matthew 10.22: 22 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10.23: 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

Matthew 10.24: 24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

Matthew 10.25: 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,3 how much more those of his household!

Matthew 10.26: 26 Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

Matthew 10.27: 27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

Matthew 10.28: 28 Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. 4

Matthew 10.29: 29 “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin?5 Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

Matthew 10.31: 31 Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Matthew 10.32: 32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10.33: 33 But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10.34: 34 “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10.35: 35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Matthew 10.37: 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Matthew 10.38: 38 He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Matthew 10.39: 39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10.40: 40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

Matthew 10.41: 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

Matthew 10.42: 42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Matthew 11.1: 11When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

Matthew 11.2: 2 Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

Matthew 11.3: 3 and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

Matthew 11.4: 4 Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:

Matthew 11.5: 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,a the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.b

Matthew 11.7: 7 As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Matthew 11.8: 8 But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

Matthew 11.9: 9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

Matthew 11.10: 10 For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’c

Matthew 11.11: 11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 11.12: 12 From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.1

Matthew 11.14: 14 If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

Matthew 11.16: 16 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

Matthew 11.17: 17 and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

Matthew 11.18: 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

Matthew 11.19: 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”2

Matthew 11.20: 20 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

Matthew 11.21: 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 11.22: 22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

Matthew 11.23: 23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. 3 For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

Matthew 11.24: 24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”

Matthew 11.25: 25 At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 11.27: 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Matthew 11.28: 28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11.29: 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Matthew 12.1: 12At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

Matthew 12.2: 2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Matthew 12.3: 3 But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

Matthew 12.4: 4 how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?a

Matthew 12.5: 5 Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

Matthew 12.7: 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’b you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 12.10: 10 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

Matthew 12.11: 11 He said to them, “What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it, and lift it out?

Matthew 12.12: 12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

Matthew 12.13: 13 Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

Matthew 12.14: 14 But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew 12.15: 15 Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

Matthew 12.17: 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

Matthew 12.22: 22 Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.

Matthew 12.23: 23 All the multitudes were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?”

Matthew 12.24: 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Matthew 12.25: 25 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

Matthew 12.26: 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

Matthew 12.27: 27 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

Matthew 12.28: 28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

Matthew 12.29: 29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Matthew 12.30: 30 “He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

Matthew 12.31: 31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

Matthew 12.32: 32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

Matthew 12.33: 33 “Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 12.34: 34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Matthew 12.35: 35 The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure1 brings out evil things.

Matthew 12.36: 36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Matthew 12.37: 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Matthew 12.38: 38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Matthew 12.39: 39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Matthew 12.40: 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Matthew 12.41: 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Matthew 12.42: 42 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

Matthew 12.43: 43 When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.

Matthew 12.44: 44 Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came out,’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Matthew 12.45: 45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

Matthew 12.46: 46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Matthew 12.47: 47 One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”

Matthew 12.48: 48 But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”

Matthew 12.49: 49 He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

Matthew 12.50: 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Matthew 13.1: 13On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

Matthew 13.2: 2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

Matthew 13.3: 3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Matthew 13.4: 4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

Matthew 13.5: 5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

Matthew 13.6: 6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

Matthew 13.8: 8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

Matthew 13.10: 10 The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13.11: 11 He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Matthew 13.12: 12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

Matthew 13.13: 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

Matthew 13.16: 16 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

Matthew 13.17: 17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

Matthew 13.19: 19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Matthew 13.20: 20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

Matthew 13.21: 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Matthew 13.22: 22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13.23: 23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Matthew 13.24: 24 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Matthew 13.25: 25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds1 also among the wheat, and went away.

Matthew 13.26: 26 But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

Matthew 13.27: 27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’

Matthew 13.29: 29 “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

Matthew 13.30: 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

Matthew 13.31: 31 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

Matthew 13.32: 32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

Matthew 13.33: 33 He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures2 of meal, until it was all leavened.”

Matthew 13.34: 34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

Matthew 13.35: 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

Matthew 13.36: 36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

Matthew 13.37: 37 He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

Matthew 13.38: 38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

Matthew 13.39: 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Matthew 13.40: 40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

Matthew 13.41: 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

Matthew 13.42: 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13.43: 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 13.44: 44 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Matthew 13.45: 45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,

Matthew 13.46: 46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Matthew 13.47: 47 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

Matthew 13.48: 48 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

Matthew 13.49: 49 So will it be in the end of the world.3 The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

Matthew 13.50: 50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 13.51: 51 Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”

Matthew 13.52: 52 He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Matthew 13.53: 53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.

Matthew 13.54: 54 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

Matthew 13.55: 55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?4

Matthew 13.56: 56 Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

Matthew 13.58: 58 He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Matthew 14.1: 14At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

Matthew 14.2: 2 and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

Matthew 14.3: 3 For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

Matthew 14.4: 4 For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Matthew 14.5: 5 When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

Matthew 14.6: 6 But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

Matthew 14.7: 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

Matthew 14.8: 8 She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

Matthew 14.9: 9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

Matthew 14.11: 11 His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.

Matthew 14.12: 12 His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.

Matthew 14.13: 13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

Matthew 14.14: 14 Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

Matthew 14.15: 15 When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”

Matthew 14.16: 16 But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

Matthew 14.17: 17 They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

Matthew 14.19: 19 He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

Matthew 14.20: 20 They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

Matthew 14.21: 21 Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

Matthew 14.22: 22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

Matthew 14.23: 23 After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

Matthew 14.24: 24 But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

Matthew 14.25: 25 In the fourth watch of the night,1 Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.a

Matthew 14.26: 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.

Matthew 14.27: 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! 2 Don’t be afraid.”

Matthew 14.28: 28 Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”

Matthew 14.30: 30 But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

Matthew 14.31: 31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 14.33: 33 Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

Matthew 14.34: 34 When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret.

Matthew 14.35: 35 When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick;

Matthew 14.36: 36 and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe3 of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.

Matthew 15.1: 15Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

Matthew 15.2: 2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Matthew 15.3: 3 He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Matthew 15.4: 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’a and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’b

Matthew 15.5: 5 But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”

Matthew 15.6: 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Matthew 15.10: 10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

Matthew 15.11: 11 That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Matthew 15.12: 12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

Matthew 15.13: 13 But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Matthew 15.14: 14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 15.17: 17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

Matthew 15.18: 18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

Matthew 15.19: 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Matthew 15.20: 20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

Matthew 15.21: 21 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

Matthew 15.22: 22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

Matthew 15.24: 24 But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 15.26: 26 But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Matthew 15.27: 27 But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Matthew 15.28: 28 Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Matthew 15.29: 29 Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.

Matthew 15.30: 30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

Matthew 15.31: 31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.

Matthew 15.32: 32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

Matthew 15.33: 33 The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

Matthew 15.36: 36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

Matthew 15.37: 37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

Matthew 15.38: 38 Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children.

Matthew 15.39: 39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.

Matthew 16.1: 16The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16.2: 2 But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

Matthew 16.3: 3 In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

Matthew 16.4: 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”

Matthew 16.5: 5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.

Matthew 16.6: 6 Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 16.7: 7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

Matthew 16.8: 8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

Matthew 16.9: 9 Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Matthew 16.10: 10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Matthew 16.11: 11 How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 16.12: 12 Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16.13: 13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

Matthew 16.14: 14 They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

Matthew 16.16: 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Matthew 16.17: 17 Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 16.18: 18 I also tell you that you are Peter,1 and on this rock 2 I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades3 will not prevail against it.

Matthew 16.19: 19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

Matthew 16.20: 20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

Matthew 16.21: 21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

Matthew 16.22: 22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

Matthew 16.23: 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Matthew 16.24: 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 16.25: 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16.26: 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 16.27: 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Matthew 16.28: 28 Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

Matthew 17.1: 17After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

Matthew 17.2: 2 He was changed1 before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

Matthew 17.4: 4 Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Matthew 17.5: 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Matthew 17.6: 6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.

Matthew 17.7: 7 Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.”

Matthew 17.9: 9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

Matthew 17.10: 10 His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Matthew 17.11: 11 Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

Matthew 17.12: 12 but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

Matthew 17.13: 13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

Matthew 17.14: 14 When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, and saying,

Matthew 17.15: 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

Matthew 17.16: 16 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

Matthew 17.17: 17 Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Matthew 17.18: 18 Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

Matthew 17.19: 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

Matthew 17.20: 20 He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Matthew 17.21: 21 But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.” 2

Matthew 17.22: 22 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

Matthew 17.23: 23 and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.”

Matthew 17.24: 24 When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins3 came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”

When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

Matthew 17.27: 27 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.4 Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

Matthew 18.1: 18In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

Matthew 18.2: 2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,

Matthew 18.3: 3 and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 18.4: 4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 18.6: 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18.7: 7 “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Matthew 18.8: 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

Matthew 18.9: 9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna1 of fire.

Matthew 18.10: 10 See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18.12: 12 “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

Matthew 18.13: 13 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

Matthew 18.14: 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18.15: 15 “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Matthew 18.16: 16 But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.a

Matthew 18.17: 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Matthew 18.18: 18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

Matthew 18.19: 19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18.20: 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Matthew 18.21: 21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

Matthew 18.22: 22 Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

Matthew 18.23: 23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

Matthew 18.24: 24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.3

Matthew 18.25: 25 But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Matthew 18.26: 26 The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

Matthew 18.27: 27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18.28: 28 “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,4 and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

Matthew 18.29: 29 “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

Matthew 18.30: 30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

Matthew 18.31: 31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.

Matthew 18.32: 32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Matthew 18.33: 33 Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

Matthew 18.34: 34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

Matthew 18.35: 35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Matthew 19.1: 19When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

Matthew 19.3: 3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Matthew 19.4: 4 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,a

Matthew 19.5: 5 and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’b

Matthew 19.6: 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Matthew 19.7: 7 They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?”

Matthew 19.8: 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Matthew 19.9: 9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Matthew 19.10: 10 His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

Matthew 19.11: 11 But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

Matthew 19.12: 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

Matthew 19.13: 13 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

Matthew 19.14: 14 But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

Matthew 19.16: 16 Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

Matthew 19.17: 17 He said to him, “Why do you call me good?1 No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

Matthew 19.19: 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother.’c And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”d

Matthew 19.20: 20 The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Matthew 19.21: 21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Matthew 19.22: 22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

Matthew 19.23: 23 Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

Matthew 19.24: 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

Matthew 19.25: 25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

Matthew 19.26: 26 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 19.27: 27 Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

Matthew 19.28: 28 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Matthew 19.29: 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 20.1: 20“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

Matthew 20.2: 2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius1 a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20.3: 3 He went out about the third hour,2 and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

Matthew 20.4: 4 He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

Matthew 20.5: 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,3 and did likewise.

Matthew 20.6: 6 About the eleventh hour4 he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

“He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

Matthew 20.8: 8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

Matthew 20.9: 9 “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

Matthew 20.10: 10 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

Matthew 20.11: 11 When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Matthew 20.12: 12 saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

Matthew 20.13: 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

Matthew 20.14: 14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

Matthew 20.15: 15 Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

Matthew 20.16: 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Matthew 20.17: 17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

Matthew 20.18: 18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

Matthew 20.19: 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

Matthew 20.20: 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

Matthew 20.22: 22 But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

Matthew 20.23: 23 He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Matthew 20.24: 24 When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.

Matthew 20.25: 25 But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Matthew 20.26: 26 It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be5 your servant.

Matthew 20.27: 27 Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

Matthew 20.28: 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 20.29: 29 As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

Matthew 20.30: 30 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

Matthew 20.31: 31 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

Matthew 20.32: 32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Matthew 20.34: 34 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

Matthew 21.1: 21When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage,1 to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

Matthew 21.2: 2 saying to them, “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.

Matthew 21.3: 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

Matthew 21.4: 4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

Matthew 21.7: 7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

Matthew 21.8: 8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.

Matthew 21.9: 9 The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna 2 to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” b

Matthew 21.10: 10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

Matthew 21.11: 11 The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

Matthew 21.12: 12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

Matthew 21.13: 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’c but you have made it a den of robbers!”d

Matthew 21.14: 14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

Matthew 21.15: 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”e

Matthew 21.17: 17 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.

Matthew 21.18: 18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 21.19: 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!”

Matthew 21.20: 20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”

Matthew 21.21: 21 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

Matthew 21.22: 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Matthew 21.23: 23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

Matthew 21.24: 24 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Matthew 21.25: 25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?”

They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Matthew 21.26: 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Matthew 21.28: 28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

Matthew 21.29: 29 He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

Matthew 21.30: 30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Matthew 21.32: 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Matthew 21.33: 33 “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

Matthew 21.34: 34 When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

Matthew 21.35: 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 21.36: 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

Matthew 21.37: 37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Matthew 21.38: 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

Matthew 21.39: 39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

Matthew 21.40: 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

Matthew 21.41: 41 They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

Matthew 21.43: 43 “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

Matthew 21.44: 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

Matthew 21.45: 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

Matthew 21.46: 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

Matthew 22.2: 2 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

Matthew 22.3: 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

Matthew 22.4: 4 Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!”’

Matthew 22.5: 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

Matthew 22.6: 6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

Matthew 22.7: 7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Matthew 22.8: 8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.

Matthew 22.9: 9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’

Matthew 22.10: 10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

Matthew 22.11: 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

Matthew 22.12: 12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Matthew 22.13: 13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

Matthew 22.15: 15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

Matthew 22.16: 16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

Matthew 22.17: 17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

Matthew 22.18: 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Matthew 22.22: 22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

Matthew 22.23: 23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

Matthew 22.24: 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring1 for his brother.’

Matthew 22.25: 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.

Matthew 22.26: 26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

Matthew 22.28: 28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

Matthew 22.29: 29 But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Matthew 22.30: 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Matthew 22.31: 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

Matthew 22.32: 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’a God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Matthew 22.33: 33 When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

Matthew 22.34: 34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.

Matthew 22.37: 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’b

Matthew 22.39: 39 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’c

Matthew 22.40: 40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22.41: 41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

Matthew 22.42: 42 saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?”

Matthew 22.43: 43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

Matthew 22.46: 46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

Matthew 23.3: 3 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

Matthew 23.4: 4 For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

Matthew 23.5: 5 But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries 1 broad, enlarge the fringes2 of their garments,

Matthew 23.6: 6 and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

Matthew 23.7: 7 the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

Matthew 23.8: 8 But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

Matthew 23.9: 9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Matthew 23.10: 10 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

Matthew 23.12: 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 23.13: 13 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Matthew 23.14: 14 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.3

Matthew 23.15: 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna4 as yourselves.

Matthew 23.16: 16 “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

Matthew 23.17: 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23.18: 18 ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

Matthew 23.19: 19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23.20: 20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

Matthew 23.21: 21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living5 in it.

Matthew 23.22: 22 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

Matthew 23.23: 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,6 and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Matthew 23.25: 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.7

Matthew 23.26: 26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Matthew 23.27: 27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23.28: 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 23.29: 29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Matthew 23.30: 30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 23.31: 31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23.33: 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?8

Matthew 23.34: 34 Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Matthew 23.35: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 23.36: 36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23.37: 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Matthew 23.39: 39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”a

Matthew 24.1: 24Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

Matthew 24.2: 2 But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

Matthew 24.3: 3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Matthew 24.4: 4 Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

Matthew 24.5: 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.

Matthew 24.6: 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Matthew 24.7: 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

Matthew 24.9: 9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Matthew 24.10: 10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

Matthew 24.12: 12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Matthew 24.14: 14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 24.15: 15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, a which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Matthew 24.17: 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

Matthew 24.18: 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

Matthew 24.19: 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

Matthew 24.20: 20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

Matthew 24.21: 21 for then there will be great suffering,1 such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Matthew 24.22: 22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

Matthew 24.23: 23 “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.

Matthew 24.24: 24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Matthew 24.26: 26 If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.

Matthew 24.27: 27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Matthew 24.28: 28 For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures 2 gather together.

Matthew 24.29: 29 But immediately after the suffering3 of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;b

Matthew 24.30: 30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

Matthew 24.31: 31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Matthew 24.32: 32 “Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

Matthew 24.33: 33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Matthew 24.34: 34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation4 will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

Matthew 24.35: 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matthew 24.36: 36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,5 but my Father only.

Matthew 24.37: 37 “As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Matthew 24.38: 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

Matthew 24.39: 39 and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Matthew 24.40: 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.

Matthew 24.41: 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.

Matthew 24.42: 42 Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Matthew 24.43: 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Matthew 24.44: 44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

Matthew 24.45: 45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Matthew 24.46: 46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

Matthew 24.47: 47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

Matthew 24.48: 48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

Matthew 24.49: 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

Matthew 24.50: 50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,

Matthew 24.51: 51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Matthew 25.1: 25“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25.3: 3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

Matthew 25.6: 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

Matthew 25.8: 8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Matthew 25.9: 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

Matthew 25.10: 10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Matthew 25.11: 11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

Matthew 25.12: 12 But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

Matthew 25.13: 13 Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Matthew 25.14: 14 “For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

Matthew 25.15: 15 To one he gave five talents,2 to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

Matthew 25.16: 16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.

Matthew 25.18: 18 But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

Matthew 25.19: 19 “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

Matthew 25.20: 20 He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’

Matthew 25.21: 21 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Matthew 25.22: 22 “He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’

Matthew 25.23: 23 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Matthew 25.24: 24 “He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

Matthew 25.25: 25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’

Matthew 25.26: 26 “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

Matthew 25.27: 27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

Matthew 25.28: 28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.

Matthew 25.29: 29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.

Matthew 25.30: 30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew 25.31: 31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

Matthew 25.32: 32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Matthew 25.33: 33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Matthew 25.34: 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Matthew 25.35: 35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

Matthew 25.36: 36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

Matthew 25.37: 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

Matthew 25.38: 38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

Matthew 25.40: 40 “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,3 you did it to me.’

Matthew 25.41: 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Matthew 25.42: 42 for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

Matthew 25.43: 43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Matthew 25.44: 44 “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

Matthew 25.45: 45 “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Matthew 25.46: 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 26.1: 26When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

Matthew 26.2: 2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

Matthew 26.3: 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Matthew 26.4: 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Matthew 26.5: 5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

Matthew 26.7: 7 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

Matthew 26.8: 8 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

Matthew 26.9: 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”

Matthew 26.10: 10 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

Matthew 26.11: 11 For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

Matthew 26.12: 12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Matthew 26.13: 13 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”

Matthew 26.14: 14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

Matthew 26.15: 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 26.17: 17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

Matthew 26.18: 18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”

Matthew 26.19: 19 The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

Matthew 26.20: 20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

Matthew 26.21: 21 As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

Matthew 26.22: 22 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”

Matthew 26.23: 23 He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

Matthew 26.24: 24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 26.25: 25 Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?”

Matthew 26.26: 26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for1 it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

Matthew 26.27: 27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it,

Matthew 26.28: 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

Matthew 26.29: 29 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

Matthew 26.30: 30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Matthew 26.31: 31 Then 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 of the flock will be scattered.’a

Matthew 26.32: 32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”

Matthew 26.33: 33 But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

Matthew 26.34: 34 Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

Matthew 26.35: 35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.

Matthew 26.36: 36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”

Matthew 26.37: 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

Matthew 26.38: 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

Matthew 26.39: 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Matthew 26.40: 40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?

Matthew 26.41: 41 Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26.42: 42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

Matthew 26.43: 43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

Matthew 26.44: 44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

Matthew 26.45: 45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Matthew 26.46: 46 Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”

Matthew 26.47: 47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Matthew 26.48: 48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.”

Matthew 26.49: 49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.

Matthew 26.50: 50 Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

Matthew 26.51: 51 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.

Matthew 26.52: 52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

Matthew 26.53: 53 Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 26.54: 54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

Matthew 26.55: 55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

Matthew 26.56: 56 But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

Matthew 26.57: 57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

Matthew 26.58: 58 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

Matthew 26.59: 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

Matthew 26.60: 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Matthew 26.61: 61 and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

Matthew 26.62: 62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

Matthew 26.63: 63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

Matthew 26.64: 64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Matthew 26.65: 65 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

Matthew 26.67: 67 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

Matthew 26.69: 69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

Matthew 26.70: 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Matthew 26.71: 71 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

Matthew 26.72: 72 Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

Matthew 26.73: 73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”

Matthew 26.74: 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!”

Matthew 26.75: 75 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.

Matthew 27.1: 27Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Matthew 27.2: 2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Matthew 27.3: 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Matthew 27.5: 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

Matthew 27.6: 6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

Matthew 27.7: 7 They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.

Matthew 27.8: 8 Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day.

Matthew 27.9: 9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah1 the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

Matthew 27.11: 11 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

Matthew 27.12: 12 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

Matthew 27.13: 13 Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

Matthew 27.14: 14 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

Matthew 27.15: 15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

Matthew 27.17: 17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”

Matthew 27.19: 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

Matthew 27.20: 20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

Matthew 27.21: 21 But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”

Matthew 27.22: 22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?”

Matthew 27.24: 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Matthew 27.25: 25 All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

Matthew 27.26: 26 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

Matthew 27.27: 27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

Matthew 27.29: 29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Matthew 27.30: 30 They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

Matthew 27.31: 31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Matthew 27.32: 32 As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

Matthew 27.33: 33 When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,”

Matthew 27.34: 34 they gave him sour wine2 to drink mixed with gall.3 When he had tasted it, he would not drink.

Matthew 27.35: 35 When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,4

Matthew 27.37: 37 They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Matthew 27.38: 38 Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

Matthew 27.40: 40 and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

Matthew 27.41: 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,5 and the elders, said,

Matthew 27.42: 42 “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

Matthew 27.43: 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Matthew 27.44: 44 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

Matthew 27.45: 45 Now from the sixth hour6 there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.7

Matthew 27.46: 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima8 sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”b

Matthew 27.47: 47 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”

Matthew 27.48: 48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.

Matthew 27.49: 49 The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”

Matthew 27.50: 50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

Matthew 27.51: 51 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

Matthew 27.52: 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Matthew 27.53: 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.

Matthew 27.54: 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

Matthew 27.55: 55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

Matthew 27.56: 56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Matthew 27.57: 57 When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.

Matthew 27.58: 58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

Matthew 27.60: 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.

Matthew 27.61: 61 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

Matthew 27.62: 62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

Matthew 27.63: 63 saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Matthew 27.64: 64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

Matthew 27.65: 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”

Matthew 27.66: 66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

Matthew 28.1: 28Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

Matthew 28.2: 2 Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

Matthew 28.3: 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

Matthew 28.5: 5 The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

Matthew 28.6: 6 He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

Matthew 28.7: 7 Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”

Matthew 28.8: 8 They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

Matthew 28.9: 9 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!”

Matthew 28.10: 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers 1 that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

Matthew 28.11: 11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.

Matthew 28.12: 12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

Matthew 28.13: 13 saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

Matthew 28.14: 14 If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

Matthew 28.15: 15 So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

Matthew 28.16: 16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

Matthew 28.18: 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Matthew 28.19: 19 Go2 and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 28.20: 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Luke 1.1: 1Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

Luke 1.2: 2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

Luke 1.3: 3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

Luke 1.4: 4 that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

Luke 1.5: 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Luke 1.6: 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Luke 1.7: 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Luke 1.8: 8 Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division

Luke 1.9: 9 according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

Luke 1.10: 10 The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

Luke 1.11: 11 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

Luke 1.13: 13 But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1.14: 14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Luke 1.15: 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Luke 1.16: 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

Luke 1.17: 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’a and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 1.18: 18 Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

Luke 1.19: 19 The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Luke 1.20: 20 Behold,1 you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

Luke 1.21: 21 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

Luke 1.22: 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.

Luke 1.23: 23 When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.

Luke 1.24: 24 After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

Luke 1.25: 25 “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Luke 1.26: 26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

Luke 1.27: 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

Luke 1.28: 28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

Luke 1.29: 29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

Luke 1.30: 30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Luke 1.31: 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

Luke 1.32: 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Luke 1.33: 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

Luke 1.34: 34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

Luke 1.35: 35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Luke 1.36: 36 Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Luke 1.38: 38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.”

Luke 1.39: 39 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,

Luke 1.41: 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1.42: 42 She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Luke 1.43: 43 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Luke 1.44: 44 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

Luke 1.45: 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

Luke 1.50: 50 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

Luke 1.54: 54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,

Luke 1.56: 56 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

Luke 1.57: 57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.

Luke 1.58: 58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Luke 1.59: 59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Luke 1.61: 61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”

Luke 1.64: 64 His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.

Luke 1.65: 65 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

Luke 1.66: 66 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

Luke 1.67: 67 His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

Luke 1.69: 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

Luke 1.70: 70 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

Luke 1.74: 74 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,

Luke 1.75: 75 in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

Luke 1.77: 77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

Luke 1.80: 80 The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Luke 2.1: 2Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

Luke 2.2: 2 This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Luke 2.4: 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

Luke 2.5: 5 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant.

Luke 2.7: 7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2.8: 8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

Luke 2.9: 9 Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

Luke 2.10: 10 The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

Luke 2.11: 11 For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2.12: 12 This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

Luke 2.13: 13 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,

Luke 2.15: 15 When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

Luke 2.16: 16 They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.

Luke 2.17: 17 When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.

Luke 2.18: 18 All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.

Luke 2.20: 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.

Luke 2.21: 21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Luke 2.22: 22 When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

Luke 2.23: 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),a

Luke 2.24: 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”b

Luke 2.25: 25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Luke 2.26: 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.1

Luke 2.27: 27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,

Luke 2.33: 33 Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,

Luke 2.34: 34 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Luke 2.35: 35 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Luke 2.36: 36 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

Luke 2.37: 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Luke 2.38: 38 Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

Luke 2.39: 39 When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

Luke 2.40: 40 The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

Luke 2.41: 41 His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

Luke 2.42: 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,

Luke 2.43: 43 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it,

Luke 2.44: 44 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

Luke 2.45: 45 When they didn’t find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.

Luke 2.46: 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

Luke 2.47: 47 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

Luke 2.48: 48 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”

Luke 2.49: 49 He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Luke 2.51: 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Luke 2.52: 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Luke 3.1: 3Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Luke 3.2: 2 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

Luke 3.3: 3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

Luke 3.7: 7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 3.8: 8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

Luke 3.9: 9 Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

Luke 3.11: 11 He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Luke 3.12: 12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

Luke 3.13: 13 He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

Luke 3.14: 14 Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?”

He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

Luke 3.15: 15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

Luke 3.16: 16 John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

Luke 3.17: 17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 3.18: 18 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

Luke 3.19: 19 but Herod the tetrarch,1 being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s 2 wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

Luke 3.21: 21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

Luke 3.22: 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

Luke 3.23: 23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Luke 3.24: 24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

Luke 3.25: 25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

Luke 3.26: 26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,

Luke 3.27: 27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

Luke 3.28: 28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,

Luke 3.29: 29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

Luke 3.30: 30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,

Luke 3.31: 31 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

Luke 3.32: 32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

Luke 3.33: 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,3 the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

Luke 3.34: 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Luke 3.35: 35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

Luke 3.36: 36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Luke 3.37: 37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

Luke 3.38: 38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Luke 4.1: 4Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Luke 4.2: 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

Luke 4.3: 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

Luke 4.4: 4 Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”a

Luke 4.5: 5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Luke 4.6: 6 The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

Luke 4.8: 8 Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”b

Luke 4.9: 9 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

Luke 4.12: 12 Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”d

Luke 4.13: 13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

Luke 4.14: 14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

Luke 4.16: 16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

Luke 4.17: 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

Luke 4.20: 20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Luke 4.21: 21 He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

Luke 4.22: 22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

Luke 4.23: 23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”

Luke 4.24: 24 He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

Luke 4.25: 25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

Luke 4.26: 26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

Luke 4.27: 27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

Luke 4.28: 28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

Luke 4.29: 29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Luke 4.31: 31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

Luke 4.32: 32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

Luke 4.33: 33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

Luke 4.34: 34 saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Luke 4.35: 35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

Luke 4.36: 36 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

Luke 4.37: 37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

Luke 4.38: 38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

Luke 4.39: 39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.

Luke 4.40: 40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

Luke 4.41: 41 Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Luke 4.42: 42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

Luke 4.43: 43 But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

Luke 5.1: 5Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

Luke 5.2: 2 He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

Luke 5.3: 3 He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

Luke 5.4: 4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

Luke 5.5: 5 Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

Luke 5.6: 6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

Luke 5.7: 7 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

Luke 5.8: 8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

Luke 5.9: 9 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

Luke 5.10: 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.

Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”

Luke 5.11: 11 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

Luke 5.12: 12 While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

Luke 5.13: 13 He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.”

Luke 5.14: 14 He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

Luke 5.15: 15 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

Luke 5.17: 17 On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

Luke 5.18: 18 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

Luke 5.19: 19 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.

Luke 5.20: 20 Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

Luke 5.21: 21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

Luke 5.22: 22 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

Luke 5.23: 23 Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’

Luke 5.24: 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (he said to the paralyzed man), “I tell you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house.”

Luke 5.25: 25 Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.

Luke 5.26: 26 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”

Luke 5.27: 27 After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

Luke 5.29: 29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Luke 5.30: 30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 5.31: 31 Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

Luke 5.32: 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 5.33: 33 They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

Luke 5.34: 34 He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

Luke 5.35: 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

Luke 5.36: 36 He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

Luke 5.37: 37 No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

Luke 5.38: 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.

Luke 5.39: 39 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

Luke 6.1: 6Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

Luke 6.2: 2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

Luke 6.3: 3 Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

Luke 6.4: 4 how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”

Luke 6.6: 6 It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

Luke 6.7: 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

Luke 6.8: 8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.

Luke 6.9: 9 Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”

Luke 6.10: 10 He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.

Luke 6.11: 11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 6.12: 12 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

Luke 6.13: 13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Luke 6.14: 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

Luke 6.15: 15 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

Luke 6.16: 16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

Luke 6.17: 17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

Luke 6.18: 18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

Luke 6.19: 19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

Luke 6.22: 22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Luke 6.23: 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Luke 6.27: 27 “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Luke 6.29: 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

Luke 6.30: 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

Luke 6.32: 32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Luke 6.33: 33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Luke 6.34: 34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Luke 6.35: 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Luke 6.38: 38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.3 For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Luke 6.39: 39 He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Luke 6.40: 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Luke 6.41: 41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Luke 6.42: 42 Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

Luke 6.43: 43 For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

Luke 6.44: 44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Luke 6.45: 45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Luke 6.46: 46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Luke 6.47: 47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

Luke 6.48: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

Luke 6.49: 49 But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Luke 7.1: 7After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

Luke 7.2: 2 A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

Luke 7.3: 3 When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.

Luke 7.4: 4 When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,

Luke 7.6: 6 Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

Luke 7.7: 7 Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Luke 7.8: 8 For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

Luke 7.9: 9 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel.”

Luke 7.10: 10 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.

Luke 7.11: 11 Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.

Luke 7.12: 12 Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

Luke 7.13: 13 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

Luke 7.14: 14 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

Luke 7.15: 15 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

Luke 7.16: 16 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

Luke 7.17: 17 This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region.

Luke 7.19: 19 John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?”

Luke 7.20: 20 When the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?’”

Luke 7.21: 21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.

Luke 7.22: 22 Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Luke 7.24: 24 When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Luke 7.25: 25 But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

Luke 7.26: 26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

Luke 7.28: 28 “For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”

Luke 7.29: 29 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

Luke 7.30: 30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Luke 7.31: 31 1 “To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

Luke 7.32: 32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

Luke 7.33: 33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

Luke 7.34: 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Luke 7.36: 36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

Luke 7.37: 37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Luke 7.38: 38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

Luke 7.39: 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Luke 7.41: 41 “A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

Luke 7.42: 42 When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

Luke 7.44: 44 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

Luke 7.45: 45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

Luke 7.46: 46 You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

Luke 7.47: 47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

Luke 7.49: 49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

Luke 7.50: 50 He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Luke 8.1: 8Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,

Luke 8.2: 2 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

Luke 8.3: 3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them1 from their possessions.

Luke 8.4: 4 When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

Luke 8.5: 5 “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

Luke 8.6: 6 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Luke 8.7: 7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

Luke 8.8: 8 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Luke 8.10: 10 He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’a

Luke 8.12: 12 Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

Luke 8.13: 13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Luke 8.14: 14 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

Luke 8.15: 15 Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Luke 8.16: 16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

Luke 8.17: 17 For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Luke 8.18: 18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Luke 8.19: 19 His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.

Luke 8.20: 20 Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”

Luke 8.21: 21 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

Luke 8.22: 22 Now on one of those days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out.

Luke 8.23: 23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

Luke 8.24: 24 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.b

Luke 8.25: 25 He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

Luke 8.26: 26 They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

Luke 8.27: 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

Luke 8.28: 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

Luke 8.29: 29 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

Luke 8.31: 31 They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

Luke 8.32: 32 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.

Luke 8.33: 33 The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

Luke 8.34: 34 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.

Luke 8.35: 35 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Luke 8.36: 36 Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

Luke 8.37: 37 All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

Luke 8.38: 38 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Luke 8.39: 39 “Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

Luke 8.40: 40 When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

Luke 8.41: 41 Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

Luke 8.42: 42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

Luke 8.43: 43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

Luke 8.44: 44 came behind him, and touched the fringe2 of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

Luke 8.46: 46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

Luke 8.47: 47 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

Luke 8.48: 48 He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

Luke 8.49: 49 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”

Luke 8.50: 50 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”

Luke 8.51: 51 When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

Luke 8.52: 52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

Luke 8.54: 54 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”

Luke 8.55: 55 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

Luke 8.56: 56 Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.

Luke 9.1: 9He called the twelve1 together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

Luke 9.3: 3 He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each.

Luke 9.5: 5 As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

Luke 9.6: 6 They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News and healing everywhere.

Luke 9.7: 7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

Luke 9.8: 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

Luke 9.9: 9 Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

Luke 9.10: 10 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done.

Luke 9.11: 11 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.

Luke 9.12: 12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

Luke 9.16: 16 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

Luke 9.17: 17 They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

Luke 9.18: 18 As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

Luke 9.19: 19 They answered, “‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”

Luke 9.22: 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

Luke 9.23: 23 He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,3 and follow me.

Luke 9.24: 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

Luke 9.25: 25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

Luke 9.26: 26 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Luke 9.27: 27 But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”

Luke 9.28: 28 About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

Luke 9.29: 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.

Luke 9.31: 31 who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure,4 which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

Luke 9.32: 32 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

Luke 9.33: 33 As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.

Luke 9.34: 34 While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.

Luke 9.35: 35 A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”

Luke 9.36: 36 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.

Luke 9.37: 37 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.

Luke 9.38: 38 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

Luke 9.39: 39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.

Luke 9.41: 41 Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

Luke 9.42: 42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,

Luke 9.44: 44 “Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

Luke 9.45: 45 But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

Luke 9.46: 46 An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.

Luke 9.47: 47 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

Luke 9.48: 48 and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

Luke 9.49: 49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”

Luke 9.50: 50 Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

Luke 9.51: 51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

Luke 9.52: 52 and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

Luke 9.53: 53 They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

Luke 9.54: 54 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

Luke 9.55: 55 But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

Luke 9.56: 56 For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”

Luke 9.57: 57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

Luke 9.58: 58 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Luke 9.60: 60 But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

Luke 9.61: 61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

Luke 9.62: 62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

Luke 10.1: 10Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him1 into every city and place where he was about to come.

Luke 10.2: 2 Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Luke 10.5: 5 Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

Luke 10.6: 6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Luke 10.7: 7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

Luke 10.8: 8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

Luke 10.9: 9 Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

Luke 10.10: 10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say,

Luke 10.11: 11 ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

Luke 10.12: 12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

Luke 10.13: 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10.14: 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

Luke 10.15: 15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. 2

Luke 10.16: 16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Luke 10.17: 17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

Luke 10.18: 18 He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Luke 10.19: 19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

Luke 10.20: 20 Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Luke 10.21: 21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

Luke 10.22: 22 Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

Luke 10.23: 23 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

Luke 10.24: 24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”

Luke 10.25: 25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Luke 10.26: 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

Luke 10.27: 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind;a and your neighbor as yourself.”b

Luke 10.28: 28 He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

Luke 10.29: 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Luke 10.30: 30 Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

Luke 10.31: 31 By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Luke 10.32: 32 In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

Luke 10.33: 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

Luke 10.34: 34 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Luke 10.35: 35 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

Luke 10.36: 36 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

Luke 10.38: 38 As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

Luke 10.39: 39 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

Luke 10.40: 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

Luke 10.41: 41 Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

Luke 10.42: 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 11.1: 11When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

Luke 11.5: 5 He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Luke 11.6: 6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

Luke 11.7: 7 and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

Luke 11.8: 8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

Luke 11.9: 9 “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 11.10: 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 11.11: 11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Luke 11.12: 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

Luke 11.13: 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Luke 11.14: 14 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

Luke 11.15: 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Luke 11.17: 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

Luke 11.18: 18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

Luke 11.19: 19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

Luke 11.20: 20 But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

Luke 11.21: 21 “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

Luke 11.22: 22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

Luke 11.23: 23 “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

Luke 11.24: 24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

Luke 11.26: 26 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

Luke 11.27: 27 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

Luke 11.28: 28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Luke 11.29: 29 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

Luke 11.30: 30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

Luke 11.31: 31 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

Luke 11.32: 32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

Luke 11.33: 33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

Luke 11.34: 34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

Luke 11.36: 36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

Luke 11.37: 37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

Luke 11.38: 38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

Luke 11.39: 39 The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Luke 11.40: 40 You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Luke 11.41: 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Luke 11.42: 42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Luke 11.43: 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

Luke 11.44: 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

Luke 11.45: 45 One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

Luke 11.46: 46 He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

Luke 11.47: 47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11.48: 48 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Luke 11.49: 49 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

Luke 11.50: 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Luke 11.51: 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

Luke 11.52: 52 Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Luke 11.53: 53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

Luke 11.54: 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Luke 12.1: 12Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 12.2: 2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

Luke 12.3: 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Luke 12.4: 4 “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Luke 12.5: 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.1 Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Luke 12.6: 6 “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins2? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

Luke 12.7: 7 But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke 12.8: 8 “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

Luke 12.9: 9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

Luke 12.10: 10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Luke 12.11: 11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

Luke 12.12: 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

Luke 12.13: 13 One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

Luke 12.14: 14 But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

Luke 12.15: 15 He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Luke 12.16: 16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

Luke 12.17: 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

Luke 12.18: 18 He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Luke 12.19: 19 I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

Luke 12.20: 20 “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Luke 12.21: 21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Luke 12.22: 22 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Luke 12.24: 24 Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Luke 12.26: 26 If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

Luke 12.27: 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Luke 12.28: 28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

Luke 12.29: 29 Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Luke 12.30: 30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

Luke 12.31: 31 But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Luke 12.32: 32 Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Luke 12.33: 33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Luke 12.36: 36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

Luke 12.37: 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

Luke 12.38: 38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

Luke 12.39: 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Luke 12.40: 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

Luke 12.41: 41 Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”

Luke 12.42: 42 The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

Luke 12.43: 43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

Luke 12.45: 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

Luke 12.46: 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

Luke 12.47: 47 That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

Luke 12.48: 48 but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Luke 12.49: 49 “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

Luke 12.50: 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Luke 12.51: 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

Luke 12.52: 52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Luke 12.53: 53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” a

Luke 12.54: 54 He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

Luke 12.55: 55 When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

Luke 12.56: 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

Luke 12.58: 58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

Luke 12.59: 59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.4”

Luke 13.1: 13Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Luke 13.2: 2 Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

Luke 13.3: 3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

Luke 13.4: 4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

Luke 13.5: 5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

Luke 13.6: 6 He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

Luke 13.7: 7 He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

Luke 13.8: 8 He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Luke 13.9: 9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”

Luke 13.11: 11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

Luke 13.12: 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”

Luke 13.13: 13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.

Luke 13.14: 14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”

Luke 13.15: 15 Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?

Luke 13.16: 16 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Luke 13.17: 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

Luke 13.18: 18 He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

Luke 13.19: 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

Luke 13.21: 21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures 1 of flour, until it was all leavened.”

Luke 13.22: 22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

Luke 13.24: 24 “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

Luke 13.25: 25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

Luke 13.26: 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

Luke 13.27: 27 He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

Luke 13.28: 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

Luke 13.29: 29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom.

Luke 13.30: 30 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”

Luke 13.31: 31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”

Luke 13.32: 32 He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.

Luke 13.33: 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’

Luke 13.34: 34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

Luke 13.35: 35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” a

Luke 14.1: 14When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

Luke 14.3: 3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

Luke 14.5: 5 He answered them, “Which of you, if your son1 or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

Luke 14.7: 7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

Luke 14.8: 8 “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

Luke 14.9: 9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

Luke 14.10: 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

Luke 14.11: 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 14.12: 12 He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

Luke 14.13: 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

Luke 14.14: 14 and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

Luke 14.15: 15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”

Luke 14.16: 16 But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

Luke 14.17: 17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’

“The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

Luke 14.19: 19 “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

Luke 14.20: 20 “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

Luke 14.21: 21 “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

Luke 14.22: 22 “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

Luke 14.23: 23 “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke 14.24: 24 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”

Luke 14.25: 25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

Luke 14.26: 26 “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard2 his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Luke 14.27: 27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Luke 14.28: 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Luke 14.29: 29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

Luke 14.30: 30 saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

Luke 14.31: 31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14.32: 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

Luke 14.33: 33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

Luke 14.34: 34 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

Luke 14.35: 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Luke 15.1: 15Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

Luke 15.2: 2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

Luke 15.4: 4 “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

Luke 15.6: 6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

Luke 15.7: 7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Luke 15.8: 8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma1 coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

Luke 15.9: 9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

Luke 15.10: 10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

Luke 15.12: 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

Luke 15.13: 13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Luke 15.14: 14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

Luke 15.15: 15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Luke 15.16: 16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

Luke 15.17: 17 But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

Luke 15.18: 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

Luke 15.19: 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

Luke 15.20: 20 “He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Luke 15.21: 21 The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Luke 15.22: 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet.

Luke 15.23: 23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat, and celebrate;

Luke 15.24: 24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Luke 15.25: 25 “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15.26: 26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

Luke 15.27: 27 He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

Luke 15.28: 28 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

Luke 15.29: 29 But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15.30: 30 But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Luke 15.31: 31 “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

Luke 15.32: 32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

Luke 16.1: 16He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Luke 16.2: 2 He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

Luke 16.3: 3 “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Luke 16.4: 4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’

Luke 16.5: 5 Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

Luke 16.6: 6 He said, ‘A hundred batos1 of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

Luke 16.7: 7 Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors2 of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

Luke 16.8: 8 “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Luke 16.9: 9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Luke 16.10: 10 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Luke 16.11: 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Luke 16.12: 12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

Luke 16.13: 13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”3

Luke 16.14: 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Luke 16.15: 15 He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 16.16: 16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Luke 16.17: 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

Luke 16.18: 18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Luke 16.19: 19 “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Luke 16.20: 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

Luke 16.21: 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Luke 16.22: 22 The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

Luke 16.23: 23 In Hades,4 he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

Luke 16.24: 24 He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

Luke 16.25: 25 “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Luke 16.26: 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

Luke 16.27: 27 “He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house;

Luke 16.28: 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’

Luke 16.29: 29 “But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

Luke 16.30: 30 “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’

Luke 16.31: 31 “He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”

Luke 17.1: 17He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

Luke 17.2: 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Luke 17.3: 3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Luke 17.4: 4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

Luke 17.6: 6 The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Luke 17.7: 7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’

Luke 17.8: 8 and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

Luke 17.9: 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

Luke 17.10: 10 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

Luke 17.11: 11 As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

Luke 17.12: 12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

Luke 17.13: 13 They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

Luke 17.14: 14 When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

Luke 17.15: 15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

Luke 17.16: 16 He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

Luke 17.17: 17 Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

Luke 17.18: 18 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”

Luke 17.19: 19 Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

Luke 17.20: 20 Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation;

Luke 17.21: 21 neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

Luke 17.22: 22 He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

Luke 17.23: 23 They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them,

Luke 17.24: 24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Luke 17.25: 25 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

Luke 17.26: 26 As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

Luke 17.27: 27 They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 17.28: 28 Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Luke 17.29: 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.

Luke 17.30: 30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 17.31: 31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

Luke 17.33: 33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

Luke 17.34: 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.

Luke 17.35: 35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”

He said to them, “Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together.”

Luke 18.1: 18He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Luke 18.2: 2 saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

Luke 18.3: 3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

Luke 18.4: 4 He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

Luke 18.5: 5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

Luke 18.7: 7 Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Luke 18.8: 8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Luke 18.9: 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Luke 18.10: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

Luke 18.11: 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18.13: 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Luke 18.14: 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 18.15: 15 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Luke 18.16: 16 Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Luke 18.17: 17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Luke 18.18: 18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Luke 18.19: 19 Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.

Luke 18.20: 20 You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”a

Luke 18.21: 21 He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

Luke 18.22: 22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Luke 18.23: 23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

Luke 18.24: 24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Luke 18.25: 25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

Luke 18.27: 27 But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

Luke 18.28: 28 Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”

Luke 18.29: 29 He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,

Luke 18.30: 30 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

Luke 18.31: 31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Luke 18.32: 32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

Luke 18.33: 33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

Luke 18.34: 34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

Luke 18.35: 35 As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

Luke 18.39: 39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

Luke 18.40: 40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,

Luke 18.42: 42 Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.”

Luke 18.43: 43 Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

Luke 19.2: 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

Luke 19.3: 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.

Luke 19.4: 4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

Luke 19.5: 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

Luke 19.7: 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 19.8: 8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

Luke 19.9: 9 Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

Luke 19.10: 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Luke 19.11: 11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.

Luke 19.12: 12 He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

Luke 19.13: 13 He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, 1 and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

Luke 19.14: 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

Luke 19.15: 15 “When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

Luke 19.16: 16 The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

Luke 19.17: 17 “He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

Luke 19.18: 18 “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’

Luke 19.20: 20 Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

Luke 19.21: 21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

Luke 19.22: 22 “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

Luke 19.23: 23 Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

Luke 19.24: 24 He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’

Luke 19.26: 26 ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Luke 19.27: 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”

Luke 19.28: 28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

Luke 19.29: 29 When he came near to Bethsphage2 and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

Luke 19.30: 30 saying, “Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man had ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it.

Luke 19.31: 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”

Luke 19.32: 32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.

Luke 19.33: 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

Luke 19.35: 35 Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and sat Jesus on them.

Luke 19.37: 37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

Luke 19.38: 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! a Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

Luke 19.39: 39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”

Luke 19.40: 40 He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

Luke 19.42: 42 saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19.43: 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

Luke 19.44: 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

Luke 19.45: 45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

Luke 19.46: 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ b but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!” c

Luke 19.47: 47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

Luke 19.48: 48 They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

Luke 20.1: 20On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the 1priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

Luke 20.2: 2 They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

Luke 20.5: 5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

Luke 20.6: 6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

Luke 20.8: 8 Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Luke 20.9: 9 He began to tell the people this parable. “A 2 man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

Luke 20.10: 10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

Luke 20.11: 11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

Luke 20.12: 12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

Luke 20.13: 13 The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

Luke 20.14: 14 “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

Luke 20.15: 15 They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

Luke 20.16: 16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.”

Luke 20.17: 17 But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written,

Luke 20.19: 19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

Luke 20.20: 20 They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Luke 20.21: 21 They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

Luke 20.23: 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

Luke 20.25: 25 He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Luke 20.26: 26 They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

Luke 20.27: 27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

Luke 20.28: 28 They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

Luke 20.29: 29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

Luke 20.31: 31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.

Luke 20.33: 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”

Luke 20.34: 34 Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

Luke 20.35: 35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Luke 20.36: 36 For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

Luke 20.37: 37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ b

Luke 20.38: 38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”

Luke 20.41: 41 He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?

Luke 20.46: 46 “Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

Luke 20.47: 47 who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

Luke 21.1: 21He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

Luke 21.3: 3 He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

Luke 21.4: 4 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

Luke 21.5: 5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

Luke 21.6: 6 “As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”

Luke 21.7: 7 They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”

Luke 21.8: 8 He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he2,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

Luke 21.9: 9 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”

Luke 21.10: 10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Luke 21.11: 11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Luke 21.12: 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Luke 21.14: 14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

Luke 21.15: 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Luke 21.16: 16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

Luke 21.20: 20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

Luke 21.21: 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

Luke 21.22: 22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Luke 21.23: 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

Luke 21.24: 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Luke 21.25: 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

Luke 21.26: 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Luke 21.27: 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Luke 21.28: 28 But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

Luke 21.30: 30 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

Luke 21.31: 31 Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near.

Luke 21.32: 32 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.

Luke 21.33: 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

Luke 21.34: 34 “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Luke 21.35: 35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

Luke 21.36: 36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 21.37: 37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

Luke 21.38: 38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

Luke 22.1: 22Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

Luke 22.2: 2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

Luke 22.3: 3 Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

Luke 22.4: 4 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

Luke 22.6: 6 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

Luke 22.7: 7 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

Luke 22.8: 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”

Luke 22.10: 10 He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.

Luke 22.11: 11 Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

Luke 22.12: 12 He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there.”

Luke 22.13: 13 They went, found things as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

Luke 22.15: 15 He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

Luke 22.16: 16 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.”

Luke 22.17: 17 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves,

Luke 22.18: 18 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”

Luke 22.19: 19 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

Luke 22.20: 20 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Luke 22.21: 21 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.

Luke 22.22: 22 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

Luke 22.23: 23 They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

Luke 22.24: 24 A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

Luke 22.25: 25 He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

Luke 22.26: 26 But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

Luke 22.27: 27 For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Luke 22.30: 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Luke 22.31: 31 The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

Luke 22.32: 32 but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”1

Luke 22.33: 33 He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Luke 22.34: 34 He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”

Luke 22.35: 35 He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?”

Luke 22.36: 36 Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

Luke 22.37: 37 For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’a For that which concerns me has an end.”

Luke 22.39: 39 He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

Luke 22.40: 40 When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

Luke 22.41: 41 He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

Luke 22.42: 42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Luke 22.44: 44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

Luke 22.45: 45 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

Luke 22.46: 46 and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Luke 22.47: 47 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

Luke 22.48: 48 But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

Luke 22.49: 49 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”

Luke 22.50: 50 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

Luke 22.51: 51 But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

Luke 22.52: 52 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

Luke 22.53: 53 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

Luke 22.54: 54 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

Luke 22.55: 55 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

Luke 22.56: 56 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

Luke 22.58: 58 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!”

Luke 22.59: 59 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”

Luke 22.60: 60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

Luke 22.61: 61 The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”

Luke 22.64: 64 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

Luke 22.66: 66 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

Luke 22.69: 69 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

Luke 22.71: 71 They said, “Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!”

Luke 23.2: 2 They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Luke 23.4: 4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

Luke 23.5: 5 But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Luke 23.6: 6 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

Luke 23.7: 7 When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

Luke 23.8: 8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

Luke 23.10: 10 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

Luke 23.11: 11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

Luke 23.12: 12 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

Luke 23.13: 13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

Luke 23.14: 14 and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

Luke 23.15: 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

Luke 23.18: 18 But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—

Luke 23.19: 19 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

Luke 23.22: 22 He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

Luke 23.23: 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

Luke 23.25: 25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

Luke 23.26: 26 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

Luke 23.27: 27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

Luke 23.28: 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Luke 23.29: 29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Luke 23.30: 30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’a

Luke 23.31: 31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”

Luke 23.32: 32 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

Luke 23.33: 33 When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

Luke 23.34: 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”

Luke 23.35: 35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

Luke 23.36: 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Luke 23.37: 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

Luke 23.38: 38 An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Luke 23.39: 39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

Luke 23.40: 40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

Luke 23.41: 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

Luke 23.42: 42 He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

Luke 23.43: 43 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Luke 23.44: 44 It was now about the sixth hour,2 and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.3

Luke 23.45: 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

Luke 23.46: 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Luke 23.47: 47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”

Luke 23.48: 48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

Luke 23.49: 49 All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.

Luke 23.50: 50 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

Luke 23.51: 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

Luke 23.53: 53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

Luke 23.54: 54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

Luke 23.55: 55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Luke 23.56: 56 They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Luke 24.1: 24But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

Luke 24.4: 4 While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

Luke 24.6: 6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

Luke 24.7: 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”

Luke 24.9: 9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

Luke 24.10: 10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

Luke 24.11: 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

Luke 24.12: 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

Luke 24.13: 13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia1 from Jerusalem.

Luke 24.14: 14 They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

Luke 24.15: 15 While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

Luke 24.17: 17 He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

Luke 24.18: 18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

Luke 24.20: 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Luke 24.21: 21 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

Luke 24.22: 22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

Luke 24.23: 23 and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

Luke 24.24: 24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

Luke 24.25: 25 He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Luke 24.26: 26 Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

Luke 24.27: 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luke 24.28: 28 They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

Luke 24.29: 29 They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.”

Luke 24.30: 30 When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.

Luke 24.31: 31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight.

Luke 24.32: 32 They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

Luke 24.33: 33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

Luke 24.34: 34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

Luke 24.35: 35 They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

Luke 24.36: 36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Luke 24.37: 37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

Luke 24.38: 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

Luke 24.39: 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

Luke 24.41: 41 While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

Luke 24.44: 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Luke 24.45: 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Luke 24.46: 46 He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Luke 24.47: 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Luke 24.49: 49 Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Luke 24.50: 50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

Luke 24.51: 51 While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

Luke 24.53: 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

John 1.1: 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1.3: 3 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

John 1.5: 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome 1 it.

John 1.7: 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

John 1.8: 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

John 1.10: 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

John 1.11: 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

John 1.12: 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

John 1.13: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1.14: 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1.15: 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”

John 1.17: 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

John 1.18: 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,2 who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

John 1.19: 19 This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

John 1.20: 20 He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”

John 1.22: 22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

John 1.23: 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’a as Isaiah the prophet said.”

John 1.25: 25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

John 1.26: 26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

John 1.27: 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

John 1.28: 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

John 1.29: 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold,3 the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 1.30: 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

John 1.31: 31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

John 1.32: 32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

John 1.33: 33 I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

John 1.36: 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

John 1.38: 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.4

John 1.40: 40 One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

John 1.41: 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ5).

John 1.42: 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).6

John 1.43: 43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

John 1.45: 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

John 1.46: 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”

John 1.47: 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

John 1.49: 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

John 1.50: 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”

John 1.51: 51 He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

John 2.1: 2The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

John 2.3: 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

John 2.4: 4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

John 2.5: 5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

John 2.6: 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes1 apiece.

John 2.7: 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

John 2.8: 8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

John 2.9: 9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom

John 2.10: 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

John 2.11: 11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

John 2.12: 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

John 2.13: 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 2.14: 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

John 2.15: 15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.

John 2.16: 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

John 2.17: 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”a

John 2.18: 18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

John 2.19: 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

John 2.20: 20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”

John 2.22: 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

John 2.23: 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

John 2.24: 24 But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

John 2.25: 25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

John 3.1: 3Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

John 3.2: 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

John 3.3: 3 Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, 1 he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

John 3.4: 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

John 3.5: 5 Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

John 3.6: 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3.8: 8 The wind2 blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John 3.10: 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

John 3.11: 11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

John 3.12: 12 If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

John 3.13: 13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

John 3.14: 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

John 3.15: 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3.16: 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3.17: 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

John 3.18: 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

John 3.19: 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

John 3.20: 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

John 3.21: 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

John 3.22: 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.

John 3.23: 23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized;

John 3.25: 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

John 3.26: 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

John 3.27: 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

John 3.28: 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

John 3.29: 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

John 3.31: 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

John 3.32: 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

John 3.33: 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

John 3.34: 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

John 3.36: 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys 3 the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

John 4.1: 4Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 4.5: 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

John 4.6: 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.1

John 4.7: 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

John 4.9: 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

John 4.10: 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

John 4.11: 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

John 4.12: 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

John 4.13: 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

John 4.14: 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 4.15: 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

John 4.18: 18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

John 4.20: 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

John 4.21: 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

John 4.22: 22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4.23: 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

John 4.24: 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4.25: 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

John 4.27: 27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

John 4.28: 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,

John 4.29: 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

John 4.31: 31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

John 4.32: 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

John 4.33: 33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

John 4.34: 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

John 4.35: 35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

John 4.36: 36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

John 4.37: 37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

John 4.38: 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

John 4.39: 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

John 4.40: 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

John 4.42: 42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

John 4.44: 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

John 4.45: 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

John 4.46: 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4.47: 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

John 4.48: 48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

John 4.49: 49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

John 4.50: 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

John 4.51: 51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”

John 4.52: 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour,2 the fever left him.”

John 4.53: 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.

John 4.54: 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

John 5.1: 5After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 5.2: 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

John 5.3: 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

John 5.4: 4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.1

John 5.6: 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

John 5.7: 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

John 5.10: 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

John 5.11: 11 He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

John 5.12: 12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”

John 5.13: 13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

John 5.14: 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

John 5.15: 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

John 5.16: 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

John 5.17: 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

John 5.18: 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John 5.19: 19 Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

John 5.20: 20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

John 5.21: 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

John 5.22: 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

John 5.23: 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

John 5.24: 24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 5.25: 25 Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

John 5.26: 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 5.27: 27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

John 5.28: 28 Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,

John 5.29: 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

John 5.30: 30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

John 5.32: 32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

John 5.34: 34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

John 5.35: 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

John 5.36: 36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

John 5.37: 37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

John 5.38: 38 You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.

John 5.39: 39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

John 5.43: 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

John 5.44: 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 5.45: 45 “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

John 5.46: 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

John 5.47: 47 But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

John 6.1: 6After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

John 6.2: 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

John 6.3: 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

John 6.5: 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?”

John 6.7: 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii1 worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”

John 6.9: 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

John 6.10: 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

John 6.11: 11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

John 6.12: 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

John 6.13: 13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.

John 6.14: 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”

John 6.15: 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

John 6.17: 17 They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

John 6.19: 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, 2 they saw Jesus walking on the sea,a and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

John 6.21: 21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

John 6.22: 22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.

John 6.23: 23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

John 6.24: 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

John 6.25: 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

John 6.26: 26 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

John 6.27: 27 Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

John 6.28: 28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”

John 6.29: 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

John 6.30: 30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?

John 6.31: 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven4 to eat.’”b

John 6.32: 32 Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

John 6.33: 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

John 6.34: 34 They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”

John 6.35: 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 6.36: 36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.

John 6.37: 37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

John 6.38: 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 6.39: 39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

John 6.40: 40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6.41: 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”

John 6.42: 42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’”

John 6.43: 43 Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves.

John 6.44: 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

John 6.45: 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ c Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

John 6.46: 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

John 6.47: 47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

John 6.50: 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

John 6.51: 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6.52: 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

John 6.53: 53 Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

John 6.54: 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6.56: 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

John 6.57: 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

John 6.58: 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

John 6.60: 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

John 6.61: 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

John 6.62: 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

John 6.63: 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 6.64: 64 But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.

John 6.65: 65 He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

John 6.66: 66 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

John 6.67: 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”

John 6.68: 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 6.69: 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

John 6.70: 70 Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

John 6.71: 71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

John 7.1: 7After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 7.3: 3 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

John 7.4: 4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

John 7.6: 6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

John 7.7: 7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

John 7.8: 8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

John 7.10: 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

John 7.11: 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”

John 7.12: 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

John 7.14: 14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

John 7.15: 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”

John 7.16: 16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

John 7.17: 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

John 7.18: 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 7.19: 19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

John 7.20: 20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

John 7.21: 21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it.

John 7.22: 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

John 7.23: 23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

John 7.24: 24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

John 7.25: 25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?

John 7.26: 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

John 7.27: 27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

John 7.28: 28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

John 7.30: 30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

John 7.31: 31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

John 7.32: 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

John 7.33: 33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

John 7.34: 34 You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

John 7.35: 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

John 7.36: 36 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”

John 7.37: 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

John 7.38: 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

John 7.39: 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

John 7.40: 40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”

John 7.41: 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

John 7.42: 42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring1 of David, a and from Bethlehem,b the village where David was?”

John 7.44: 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

John 7.45: 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

John 7.47: 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

John 7.50: 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

John 7.51: 51 “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

John 7.52: 52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”c

John 8.2: 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

John 8.3: 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,

John 8.4: 4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

John 8.5: 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.a What then do you say about her?”

John 8.6: 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.

John 8.7: 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

John 8.9: 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

John 8.10: 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”

Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”1

John 8.12: 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.b He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8.13: 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

John 8.14: 14 Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

John 8.16: 16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

John 8.17: 17 It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.c

John 8.18: 18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

John 8.20: 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

John 8.21: 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

John 8.22: 22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

John 8.23: 23 He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

John 8.24: 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am2 he, you will die in your sins.”

John 8.26: 26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

John 8.28: 28 Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

John 8.29: 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

John 8.31: 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

John 8.33: 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

John 8.34: 34 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

John 8.35: 35 A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

John 8.37: 37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

John 8.38: 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

John 8.40: 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

John 8.42: 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

John 8.43: 43 Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

John 8.44: 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

John 8.46: 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

John 8.47: 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

John 8.48: 48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

John 8.49: 49 Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

John 8.50: 50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

John 8.51: 51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

John 8.52: 52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

John 8.53: 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

John 8.54: 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

John 8.55: 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

John 8.56: 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

John 8.57: 57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

John 8.58: 58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.e”

John 8.59: 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

John 9.2: 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

John 9.3: 3 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

John 9.4: 4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

John 9.6: 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

John 9.7: 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

John 9.8: 8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

John 9.9: 9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”

John 9.11: 11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

John 9.15: 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

John 9.16: 16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

John 9.17: 17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”

John 9.18: 18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

John 9.19: 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

John 9.20: 20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

John 9.21: 21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

John 9.22: 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

John 9.24: 24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

John 9.25: 25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

John 9.26: 26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

John 9.27: 27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

John 9.28: 28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

John 9.29: 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

John 9.30: 30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

John 9.31: 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.a

John 9.32: 32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

John 9.34: 34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

John 9.35: 35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

John 9.37: 37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

John 9.39: 39 Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

John 9.40: 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

John 9.41: 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

John 10.1: 10“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

John 10.3: 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

John 10.4: 4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

John 10.5: 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

John 10.6: 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

John 10.7: 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

John 10.8: 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

John 10.9: 9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

John 10.10: 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 10.11: 11 I am the good shepherd.a The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10.12: 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

John 10.13: 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

John 10.14: 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

John 10.15: 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10.16: 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.b I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

John 10.17: 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, c that I may take it again.

John 10.18: 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

John 10.19: 19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

John 10.20: 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

John 10.21: 21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”d

John 10.23: 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

John 10.24: 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

John 10.25: 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

John 10.26: 26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

John 10.28: 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

John 10.29: 29 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

John 10.32: 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

John 10.33: 33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

John 10.34: 34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’e

John 10.35: 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

John 10.36: 36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

John 10.38: 38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

John 10.40: 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.

John 10.41: 41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”

John 11.1: 11Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

John 11.2: 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

John 11.3: 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

John 11.4: 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

John 11.6: 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

John 11.7: 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

John 11.8: 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

John 11.9: 9 Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

John 11.10: 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

John 11.11: 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

John 11.12: 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

John 11.13: 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

John 11.15: 15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

John 11.16: 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,1 said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

John 11.17: 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

John 11.19: 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

John 11.20: 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

John 11.21: 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

John 11.22: 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

John 11.24: 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

John 11.25: 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

John 11.26: 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11.27: 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

John 11.28: 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

John 11.30: 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

John 11.31: 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

John 11.32: 32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

John 11.33: 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

John 11.36: 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

John 11.37: 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

John 11.38: 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

John 11.40: 40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

John 11.41: 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.3 Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

John 11.42: 42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

John 11.43: 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

John 11.44: 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

John 11.45: 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

John 11.46: 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

John 11.47: 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

John 11.48: 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

John 11.49: 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

John 11.50: 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

John 11.51: 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

John 11.52: 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

John 11.53: 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

John 11.54: 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

John 11.55: 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

John 11.56: 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”

John 11.57: 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

John 12.1: 12Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

John 12.2: 2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

John 12.3: 3 Therefore Mary took a pound1 of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

John 12.4: 4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

John 12.5: 5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,2 and given to the poor?”

John 12.6: 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

John 12.7: 7 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

John 12.8: 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

John 12.9: 9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

John 12.11: 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

John 12.12: 12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

John 12.13: 13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna!3 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,a the King of Israel!”

John 12.15: 15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”b

John 12.16: 16 His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

John 12.17: 17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.

John 12.18: 18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

John 12.19: 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

John 12.20: 20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

John 12.21: 21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

John 12.22: 22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

John 12.23: 23 Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

John 12.24: 24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

John 12.25: 25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

John 12.26: 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

John 12.27: 27 “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

John 12.29: 29 Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

John 12.30: 30 Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.

John 12.31: 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

John 12.32: 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

John 12.33: 33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

John 12.34: 34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever.c How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

John 12.35: 35 Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

John 12.36: 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

John 12.37: 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

John 12.38: 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,

John 12.41: 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. f

John 12.42: 42 Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

John 12.44: 44 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

John 12.46: 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

John 12.47: 47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 12.48: 48 He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

John 12.49: 49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 12.50: 50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

John 13.1: 13Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 13.2: 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

John 13.3: 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

John 13.4: 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist.

John 13.5: 5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

John 13.6: 6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”

John 13.7: 7 Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

John 13.9: 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

John 13.10: 10 Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

John 13.11: 11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”

John 13.12: 12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

John 13.13: 13 You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

John 13.14: 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

John 13.15: 15 For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

John 13.16: 16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

John 13.18: 18 I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’a

John 13.19: 19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

John 13.20: 20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

John 13.21: 21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

John 13.22: 22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.

John 13.23: 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

John 13.24: 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”

John 13.25: 25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

John 13.26: 26 Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

John 13.29: 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

John 13.30: 30 Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

John 13.31: 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

John 13.32: 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.

John 13.33: 33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

John 13.34: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

John 13.35: 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

John 13.37: 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

John 13.38: 38 Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

John 14.1: 14“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

John 14.2: 2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

John 14.3: 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

John 14.5: 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

John 14.6: 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14.7: 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

John 14.8: 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

John 14.9: 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

John 14.10: 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

John 14.11: 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

John 14.12: 12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

John 14.13: 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14.16: 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, 1 that he may be with you forever:

John 14.17: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

John 14.19: 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

John 14.20: 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

John 14.21: 21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

John 14.22: 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

John 14.23: 23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

John 14.24: 24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

John 14.26: 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

John 14.27: 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

John 14.28: 28 You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

John 14.29: 29 Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.

John 14.30: 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

John 14.31: 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

John 15.2: 2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 15.3: 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

John 15.4: 4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

John 15.5: 5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15.6: 6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

John 15.7: 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

John 15.8: 8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

John 15.9: 9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

John 15.10: 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

John 15.11: 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

John 15.12: 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

John 15.13: 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15.15: 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

John 15.16: 16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15.18: 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

John 15.19: 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15.20: 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’a If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

John 15.21: 21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

John 15.22: 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15.24: 24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

John 15.25: 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’b

John 15.26: 26 “When the Counselor1 has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

John 15.27: 27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

John 16.1: 16“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

John 16.2: 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

John 16.3: 3 They will do these things1 because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 16.4: 4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

John 16.5: 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

John 16.6: 6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

John 16.7: 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

John 16.8: 8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

John 16.10: 10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

John 16.11: 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

John 16.12: 12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

John 16.13: 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

John 16.14: 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

John 16.15: 15 All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes2 of mine and will declare it to you.

John 16.16: 16 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

John 16.17: 17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

John 16.18: 18 They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”

John 16.19: 19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’

John 16.20: 20 Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

John 16.21: 21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

John 16.22: 22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

John 16.23: 23 “In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

John 16.24: 24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

John 16.25: 25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16.26: 26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,

John 16.27: 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

John 16.28: 28 I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

John 16.29: 29 His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

John 16.30: 30 Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

John 16.32: 32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

John 16.33: 33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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 17.18: 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.”

John 18.1: 18When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

John 18.2: 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

John 18.3: 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

John 18.4: 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

John 18.6: 6 When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.

John 18.8: 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”

John 18.9: 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”a

John 18.10: 10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

John 18.11: 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

John 18.12: 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

John 18.13: 13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

John 18.14: 14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.

John 18.15: 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

John 18.16: 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.

John 18.17: 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?”

John 18.18: 18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

John 18.19: 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

John 18.20: 20 Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

John 18.21: 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”

John 18.22: 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

John 18.23: 23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

John 18.25: 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?”

John 18.26: 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”

John 18.27: 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

John 18.28: 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

John 18.29: 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

John 18.30: 30 They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

John 18.31: 31 Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”

Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

John 18.32: 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

John 18.33: 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

John 18.34: 34 Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”

John 18.35: 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”

John 18.36: 36 Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

John 18.39: 39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

John 18.40: 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

John 19.2: 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

John 19.3: 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

John 19.4: 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

John 19.5: 5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”

John 19.6: 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

John 19.7: 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

John 19.9: 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

John 19.10: 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”

John 19.11: 11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

John 19.12: 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

John 19.13: 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

John 19.14: 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.1 He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

John 19.16: 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

John 19.17: 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,

John 19.18: 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

John 19.19: 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

John 19.20: 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

John 19.21: 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”

John 19.23: 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

John 19.24: 24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,

John 19.25: 25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

John 19.26: 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

John 19.27: 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

John 19.28: 28 After this, Jesus, seeing2 that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

John 19.29: 29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.

John 19.30: 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

John 19.31: 31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

John 19.32: 32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;

John 19.33: 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.

John 19.34: 34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

John 19.35: 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

John 19.36: 36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”b

John 19.37: 37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”c

John 19.38: 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

John 19.39: 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.3

John 19.40: 40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

John 19.41: 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

John 19.42: 42 Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

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 20.11: 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.

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 20.17: 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 20.29: 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.

John 21.1: 21After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.

John 21.2: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

John 21.4: 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.

John 21.5: 5 Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?”

John 21.6: 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”

They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.

John 21.7: 7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”

So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

John 21.8: 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits1 away), dragging the net full of fish.

John 21.9: 9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.

John 21.10: 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”

John 21.11: 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.

None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.

John 21.13: 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

John 21.14: 14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.

John 21.15: 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”

John 21.16: 16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?”

John 21.17: 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?”

Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.”

John 21.18: 18 Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

John 21.19: 19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

John 21.20: 20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

John 21.21: 21 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”

John 21.22: 22 Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

John 21.23: 23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers,2 that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

John 21.24: 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

John 21.25: 25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

Acts 1.1: 1The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Acts 1.2: 2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Acts 1.3: 3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Acts 1.4: 4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

Acts 1.5: 5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 1.6: 6 Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

Acts 1.7: 7 He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Acts 1.8: 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Acts 1.9: 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1.10: 10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold,1 two men stood by them in white clothing,

Acts 1.11: 11 who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

Acts 1.12: 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

Acts 1.13: 13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Acts 1.14: 14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Acts 1.15: 15 In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

Acts 1.16: 16 “Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

Acts 1.17: 17 For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

Acts 1.18: 18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

Acts 1.19: 19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’

Acts 1.21: 21 “Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 1.22: 22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

Acts 1.23: 23 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

Acts 1.24: 24 They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Acts 1.25: 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Acts 1.26: 26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

Acts 2.1: 2Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Acts 2.2: 2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Acts 2.3: 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

Acts 2.4: 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Acts 2.5: 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

Acts 2.6: 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

Acts 2.7: 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

Acts 2.9: 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

Acts 2.10: 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Acts 2.11: 11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”

Acts 2.12: 12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

Acts 2.14: 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

Acts 2.15: 15 For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.1

Acts 2.21: 21 It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’a

Acts 2.22: 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

Acts 2.23: 23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Acts 2.24: 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Acts 2.29: 29 “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 2.30: 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

Acts 2.31: 31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades,3 and his flesh didn’t see decay.

Acts 2.33: 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Acts 2.36: 36 “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Acts 2.37: 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 2.38: 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2.39: 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Acts 2.40: 40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Acts 2.41: 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 2.42: 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Acts 2.43: 43 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.

Acts 2.45: 45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

Acts 2.46: 46 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Acts 2.47: 47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Acts 3.1: 3Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.1

Acts 3.2: 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Acts 3.3: 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

Acts 3.4: 4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”

Acts 3.6: 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

Acts 3.7: 7 He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

Acts 3.8: 8 Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

Acts 3.10: 10 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Acts 3.11: 11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

Acts 3.12: 12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

Acts 3.13: 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

Acts 3.14: 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Acts 3.15: 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Acts 3.16: 16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Acts 3.17: 17 “Now, brothers,2 I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Acts 3.18: 18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Acts 3.19: 19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 3.20: 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,

Acts 3.21: 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

Acts 3.22: 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

Acts 3.23: 23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’a

Acts 3.24: 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

Acts 3.25: 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’3 b

Acts 3.26: 26 God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

Acts 4.1: 4As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

Acts 4.2: 2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 4.3: 3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

Acts 4.4: 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Acts 4.5: 5 In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

Acts 4.6: 6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

Acts 4.7: 7 When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

Acts 4.8: 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Acts 4.9: 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Acts 4.10: 10 may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.

Acts 4.11: 11 He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’a

Acts 4.12: 12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Acts 4.13: 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 4.14: 14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

Acts 4.15: 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

Acts 4.16: 16 saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.

Acts 4.17: 17 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

Acts 4.18: 18 They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

Acts 4.19: 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

Acts 4.21: 21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

Acts 4.22: 22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

Acts 4.23: 23 Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Acts 4.24: 24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Acts 4.27: 27 “For truly,2 both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Acts 4.29: 29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Acts 4.30: 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Acts 4.31: 31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Acts 4.32: 32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Acts 4.33: 33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

Acts 4.34: 34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Acts 4.35: 35 and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

Acts 4.36: 36 Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

Acts 4.37: 37 having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 5.1: 5But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

Acts 5.2: 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 5.3: 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Acts 5.4: 4 While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

Acts 5.5: 5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

Acts 5.6: 6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

Acts 5.7: 7 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

Acts 5.8: 8 Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.”

Acts 5.9: 9 But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Acts 5.10: 10 She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

Acts 5.11: 11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

Acts 5.12: 12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

Acts 5.13: 13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

Acts 5.14: 14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

Acts 5.15: 15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.

Acts 5.16: 16 The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

Acts 5.17: 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Acts 5.19: 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

Acts 5.20: 20 “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 5.21: 21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Acts 5.22: 22 But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

Acts 5.23: 23 “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

Acts 5.24: 24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

Acts 5.25: 25 One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”

Acts 5.26: 26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

Acts 5.27: 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

Acts 5.28: 28 saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Acts 5.29: 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 5.30: 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

Acts 5.31: 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Acts 5.32: 32 We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 5.33: 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

Acts 5.34: 34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

Acts 5.35: 35 He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.

Acts 5.36: 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

Acts 5.37: 37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

Acts 5.38: 38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

Acts 5.39: 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

Acts 5.40: 40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 5.41: 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

Acts 5.42: 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Acts 6.1: 6Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists1 against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Acts 6.2: 2 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

Acts 6.3: 3 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Acts 6.4: 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

Acts 6.5: 5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

Acts 6.6: 6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Acts 6.7: 7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Acts 6.8: 8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 6.9: 9 But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

Acts 6.10: 10 They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

Acts 6.11: 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

Acts 6.12: 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

Acts 6.13: 13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Acts 6.14: 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

Acts 6.15: 15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

Acts 7.2: 2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Acts 7.3: 3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’a

Acts 7.4: 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

Acts 7.5: 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.

Acts 7.6: 6 God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Acts 7.7: 7 ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’b

Acts 7.8: 8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

Acts 7.9: 9 “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

Acts 7.10: 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Acts 7.11: 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

Acts 7.12: 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

Acts 7.13: 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

Acts 7.14: 14 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

Acts 7.16: 16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

Acts 7.17: 17 “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Acts 7.19: 19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

Acts 7.20: 20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

Acts 7.21: 21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.

Acts 7.22: 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

Acts 7.23: 23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers,1 the children of Israel.

Acts 7.24: 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

Acts 7.25: 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

Acts 7.26: 26 “The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

Acts 7.27: 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7.29: 29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Acts 7.30: 30 “When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

Acts 7.31: 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

Acts 7.32: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’d Moses trembled, and dared not look.

Acts 7.33: 33 The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

Acts 7.34: 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’e

Acts 7.35: 35 “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Acts 7.36: 36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Acts 7.37: 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’2 f

Acts 7.38: 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

Acts 7.39: 39 to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Acts 7.40: 40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’g

Acts 7.41: 41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

Acts 7.42: 42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,3 as it is written in the book of the prophets,

Acts 7.44: 44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

Acts 7.45: 45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

Acts 7.46: 46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

Acts 7.48: 48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

Acts 7.51: 51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Acts 7.52: 52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Acts 7.53: 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Acts 7.54: 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Acts 7.55: 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Acts 7.56: 56 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Acts 7.57: 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

Acts 7.58: 58 They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 7.59: 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Acts 7.60: 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

Acts 8.1: 8Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

Acts 8.3: 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Acts 8.4: 4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

Acts 8.5: 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

Acts 8.6: 6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

Acts 8.7: 7 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

Acts 8.9: 9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

Acts 8.10: 10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”

Acts 8.11: 11 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

Acts 8.12: 12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 8.13: 13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

Acts 8.14: 14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

Acts 8.15: 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

Acts 8.16: 16 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

Acts 8.17: 17 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8.18: 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

Acts 8.19: 19 saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 8.20: 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

Acts 8.21: 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

Acts 8.22: 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Acts 8.23: 23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Acts 8.24: 24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

Acts 8.25: 25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

Acts 8.26: 26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

Acts 8.27: 27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Acts 8.28: 28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Acts 8.29: 29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

Acts 8.30: 30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Acts 8.31: 31 He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

Acts 8.34: 34 The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

Acts 8.35: 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

Acts 8.36: 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

Acts 8.38: 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 8.39: 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

Acts 8.40: 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 9.1: 9But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 9.2: 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 9.3: 3 As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

Acts 9.4: 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

Acts 9.6: 6 But2 rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

Acts 9.7: 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

Acts 9.8: 8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

Acts 9.10: 10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!”

Acts 9.11: 11 The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah3 for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

Acts 9.12: 12 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”

Acts 9.13: 13 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

Acts 9.14: 14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

Acts 9.15: 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Acts 9.16: 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Acts 9.17: 17 Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 9.18: 18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

Acts 9.19: 19 He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

Acts 9.20: 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

Acts 9.21: 21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

Acts 9.22: 22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Acts 9.23: 23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

Acts 9.24: 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

Acts 9.25: 25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Acts 9.26: 26 When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

Acts 9.27: 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Acts 9.29: 29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus.5 He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists,6 but they were seeking to kill him.

Acts 9.30: 30 When the brothers7 knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

Acts 9.31: 31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 9.32: 32 As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

Acts 9.33: 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

Acts 9.34: 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” Immediately he arose.

Acts 9.35: 35 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

Acts 9.36: 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas.8 This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Acts 9.37: 37 In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

Acts 9.38: 38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men9 to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

Acts 9.39: 39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Acts 9.40: 40 Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Acts 9.41: 41 He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

Acts 9.42: 42 This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

Acts 10.1: 10Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

Acts 10.2: 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Acts 10.3: 3 At about the ninth hour of the day,1 he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Acts 10.4: 4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?”

He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

Acts 10.6: 6 He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside. 2

Acts 10.7: 7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

Acts 10.9: 9 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

Acts 10.10: 10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

Acts 10.11: 11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

Acts 10.12: 12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

Acts 10.14: 14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

Acts 10.15: 15 A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Acts 10.16: 16 This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

Acts 10.17: 17 Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate,

Acts 10.18: 18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.

Acts 10.19: 19 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three 3 men seek you.

Acts 10.20: 20 But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”

Acts 10.21: 21 Peter went down to the men, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”

Acts 10.22: 22 They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

Acts 10.23: 23 So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

Acts 10.24: 24 On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.

Acts 10.25: 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.

Acts 10.26: 26 But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

Acts 10.27: 27 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.

Acts 10.28: 28 He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

Acts 10.29: 29 Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

Acts 10.30: 30 Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour,4 I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Acts 10.31: 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Acts 10.32: 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’

Acts 10.33: 33 Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

Acts 10.34: 34 Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Acts 10.35: 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Acts 10.36: 36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

Acts 10.37: 37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Acts 10.38: 38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Acts 10.39: 39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also5 killed, hanging him on a tree.

Acts 10.41: 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

Acts 10.42: 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

Acts 10.43: 43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Acts 10.44: 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

Acts 10.45: 45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

Acts 10.46: 46 For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God.

Acts 10.47: 47 “Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

Acts 10.48: 48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Acts 11.1: 11Now the apostles and the brothers1 who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Acts 11.2: 2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

Acts 11.5: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

Acts 11.6: 6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.

Acts 11.7: 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’

Acts 11.8: 8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

Acts 11.9: 9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

Acts 11.10: 10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Acts 11.11: 11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

Acts 11.12: 12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.

Acts 11.13: 13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,

Acts 11.14: 14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

Acts 11.15: 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

Acts 11.16: 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

Acts 11.17: 17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

Acts 11.18: 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Acts 11.19: 19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

Acts 11.20: 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists,2 preaching the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11.21: 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Acts 11.22: 22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

Acts 11.23: 23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

Acts 11.24: 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

Acts 11.26: 26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Acts 11.28: 28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

Acts 11.29: 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Acts 11.30: 30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 12.1: 12Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

Acts 12.3: 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

Acts 12.4: 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Acts 12.5: 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

Acts 12.6: 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Acts 12.7: 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

Acts 12.8: 8 The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”

Acts 12.9: 9 And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

Acts 12.10: 10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

Acts 12.11: 11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

Acts 12.12: 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

Acts 12.13: 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.

Acts 12.14: 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

Acts 12.15: 15 They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

Acts 12.16: 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

Acts 12.17: 17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

Acts 12.18: 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

Acts 12.19: 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Acts 12.20: 20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

Acts 12.21: 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.

Acts 12.23: 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 12.25: 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to1 Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.

Acts 13.1: 13Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 13.2: 2 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

Acts 13.3: 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Acts 13.4: 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

Acts 13.5: 5 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

Acts 13.6: 6 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,

Acts 13.7: 7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

Acts 13.8: 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

Acts 13.9: 9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

Acts 13.10: 10 and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Acts 13.11: 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!”

Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Acts 13.12: 12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

Acts 13.13: 13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Acts 13.14: 14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

Acts 13.15: 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Acts 13.16: 16 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

Acts 13.17: 17 The God of this people1 chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

Acts 13.18: 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Acts 13.19: 19 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.

Acts 13.20: 20 After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Acts 13.21: 21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

Acts 13.22: 22 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Acts 13.23: 23 From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation2 to Israel according to his promise,

Acts 13.24: 24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.3

Acts 13.25: 25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

Acts 13.26: 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

Acts 13.27: 27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Acts 13.28: 28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

Acts 13.29: 29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

Acts 13.31: 31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

Acts 13.33: 33 that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm,

Acts 13.34: 34 “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’b

Acts 13.35: 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’c

Acts 13.36: 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Acts 13.38: 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers,4 that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

Acts 13.39: 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Acts 13.40: 40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

Acts 13.42: 42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

Acts 13.43: 43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 13.44: 44 The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

Acts 13.45: 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

Acts 13.46: 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Acts 13.48: 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Acts 13.50: 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Acts 13.51: 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

Acts 14.1: 14In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

Acts 14.2: 2 But the disbelieving1 Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Acts 14.3: 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

Acts 14.4: 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

Acts 14.5: 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

Acts 14.6: 6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

Acts 14.8: 8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

Acts 14.9: 9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

Acts 14.10: 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.

Acts 14.11: 11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”

Acts 14.12: 12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.

Acts 14.13: 13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

Acts 14.14: 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

Acts 14.15: 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Acts 14.16: 16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 14.17: 17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you2 rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Acts 14.18: 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

Acts 14.19: 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Acts 14.20: 20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

Acts 14.21: 21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

Acts 14.22: 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Acts 14.23: 23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Acts 14.25: 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Acts 14.26: 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

Acts 14.27: 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

Acts 15.1: 15Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers,1 “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

Acts 15.2: 2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

Acts 15.3: 3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

Acts 15.4: 4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

Acts 15.5: 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Acts 15.6: 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

Acts 15.7: 7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

Acts 15.8: 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

Acts 15.9: 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Acts 15.10: 10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Acts 15.11: 11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, 2 just as they are.”

Acts 15.12: 12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Acts 15.13: 13 After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

Acts 15.14: 14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

Acts 15.19: 19 Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

Acts 15.20: 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15.21: 21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

Acts 15.22: 22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. 3

“The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

Acts 15.24: 24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

Acts 15.25: 25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Acts 15.26: 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 15.27: 27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

Acts 15.28: 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

Acts 15.29: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Acts 15.30: 30 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

Acts 15.32: 32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

Acts 15.33: 33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

Acts 15.35: 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

Acts 15.36: 36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

Acts 15.37: 37 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.

Acts 15.38: 38 But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.

Acts 15.39: 39 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

Acts 15.40: 40 but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

Acts 16.1: 16He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

Acts 16.2: 2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

Acts 16.3: 3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Acts 16.4: 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

Acts 16.5: 5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Acts 16.6: 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Acts 16.7: 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.

Acts 16.9: 9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

Acts 16.10: 10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.

Acts 16.11: 11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;

Acts 16.12: 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

Acts 16.13: 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

Acts 16.14: 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Acts 16.15: 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Acts 16.16: 16 As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Acts 16.17: 17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

Acts 16.19: 19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

Acts 16.20: 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

Acts 16.21: 21 and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

Acts 16.22: 22 The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

Acts 16.23: 23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

Acts 16.24: 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Acts 16.25: 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Acts 16.26: 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

Acts 16.27: 27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

Acts 16.28: 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

Acts 16.29: 29 He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

Acts 16.30: 30 brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16.31: 31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16.32: 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

Acts 16.33: 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

Acts 16.34: 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

Acts 16.35: 35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”

Acts 16.36: 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

Acts 16.37: 37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

Acts 16.38: 38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

Acts 16.39: 39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

Acts 16.40: 40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

Acts 17.1: 17Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17.2: 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 17.3: 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

Acts 17.4: 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

Acts 17.5: 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along1 some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 17.6: 6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers 2 before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 17.7: 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Acts 17.8: 8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

Acts 17.9: 9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

Acts 17.10: 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17.11: 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Acts 17.12: 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

Acts 17.13: 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

Acts 17.14: 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

Acts 17.15: 15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

Acts 17.16: 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

Acts 17.17: 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

Acts 17.18: 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also3 were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”

Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 17.19: 19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

Acts 17.20: 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

Acts 17.21: 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Acts 17.22: 22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

Acts 17.23: 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

Acts 17.24: 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

Acts 17.25: 25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Acts 17.26: 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Acts 17.27: 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Acts 17.28: 28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

Acts 17.29: 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

Acts 17.30: 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Acts 17.31: 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Acts 17.32: 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Acts 17.34: 34 But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Acts 18.2: 2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

Acts 18.3: 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

Acts 18.4: 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Acts 18.5: 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 18.6: 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Acts 18.7: 7 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Acts 18.8: 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

Acts 18.9: 9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

Acts 18.10: 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

Acts 18.11: 11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Acts 18.12: 12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

Acts 18.13: 13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Acts 18.14: 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

Acts 18.15: 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

Acts 18.17: 17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

Acts 18.18: 18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, 1 and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

Acts 18.19: 19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Acts 18.20: 20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

Acts 18.21: 21 but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Acts 18.22: 22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

Acts 18.23: 23 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

Acts 18.24: 24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

Acts 18.25: 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

Acts 18.26: 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

Acts 18.27: 27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

Acts 18.28: 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 19.1: 19While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

Acts 19.2: 2 He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

Acts 19.4: 4 Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Acts 19.5: 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 19.6: 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

Acts 19.8: 8 He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

Acts 19.9: 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

Acts 19.10: 10 This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Acts 19.12: 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.

Acts 19.13: 13 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

Acts 19.14: 14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

Acts 19.15: 15 The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

Acts 19.16: 16 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Acts 19.17: 17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Acts 19.18: 18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

Acts 19.19: 19 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.1

Acts 19.21: 21 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Acts 19.22: 22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

Acts 19.23: 23 About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

Acts 19.24: 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

Acts 19.25: 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

Acts 19.26: 26 You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.

Acts 19.27: 27 Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”

Acts 19.28: 28 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Acts 19.29: 29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

Acts 19.30: 30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

Acts 19.31: 31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

Acts 19.32: 32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.

Acts 19.33: 33 They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

Acts 19.34: 34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Acts 19.35: 35 When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

Acts 19.36: 36 Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.

Acts 19.37: 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

Acts 19.38: 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

Acts 19.39: 39 But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

Acts 19.40: 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

Acts 20.1: 20After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

Acts 20.2: 2 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

Acts 20.3: 3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Acts 20.4: 4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

Acts 20.6: 6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

Acts 20.7: 7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Acts 20.8: 8 There were many lights in the upper room where we1 were gathered together.

Acts 20.9: 9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.

Acts 20.10: 10 Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”

Acts 20.11: 11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

Acts 20.13: 13 But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.

Acts 20.14: 14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.

Acts 20.15: 15 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.

Acts 20.16: 16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

Acts 20.17: 17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

Acts 20.18: 18 When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

Acts 20.19: 19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Acts 20.20: 20 how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Acts 20.21: 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.2

Acts 20.22: 22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Acts 20.23: 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Acts 20.24: 24 But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Acts 20.25: 25 “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

Acts 20.26: 26 Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,

Acts 20.27: 27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Acts 20.28: 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and 3 God which he purchased with his own blood.

Acts 20.29: 29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Acts 20.30: 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Acts 20.31: 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Acts 20.32: 32 Now, brothers,4 I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Acts 20.34: 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

Acts 20.35: 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 20.36: 36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

Acts 20.38: 38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Acts 21.1: 21When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

Acts 21.2: 2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.

Acts 21.3: 3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo.

Acts 21.4: 4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21.5: 5 When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

Acts 21.6: 6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

Acts 21.7: 7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.

Acts 21.8: 8 On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea.

We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

Acts 21.10: 10 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Acts 21.11: 11 Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

Acts 21.12: 12 When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21.13: 13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 21.14: 14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

Acts 21.15: 15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21.16: 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

Acts 21.18: 18 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

Acts 21.19: 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Acts 21.20: 20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Acts 21.21: 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.

Acts 21.22: 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

Acts 21.23: 23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

Acts 21.24: 24 Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

Acts 21.25: 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

Acts 21.26: 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

Acts 21.27: 27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

Acts 21.28: 28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

Acts 21.29: 29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

Acts 21.30: 30 All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

Acts 21.31: 31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Acts 21.32: 32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

Acts 21.33: 33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

Acts 21.34: 34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

Acts 21.35: 35 When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

Acts 21.36: 36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”

Acts 21.37: 37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”

Acts 21.38: 38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

Acts 21.39: 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

Acts 21.40: 40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

Acts 22.1: 22“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

Acts 22.2: 2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

Acts 22.3: 3 “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

Acts 22.4: 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Acts 22.5: 5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

Acts 22.6: 6 As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.

Acts 22.7: 7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Acts 22.8: 8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’

Acts 22.9: 9 “Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

Acts 22.10: 10 I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

Acts 22.11: 11 When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

Acts 22.12: 12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

Acts 22.13: 13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.

Acts 22.14: 14 He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Acts 22.15: 15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 22.16: 16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Acts 22.17: 17 “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

Acts 22.18: 18 and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

Acts 22.19: 19 I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

Acts 22.20: 20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

Acts 22.21: 21 “He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

Acts 22.22: 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”

Acts 22.23: 23 As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

Acts 22.24: 24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

Acts 22.25: 25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

Acts 22.26: 26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”

Acts 22.27: 27 The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?”

Acts 22.28: 28 The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.”

Acts 22.29: 29 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

Acts 22.30: 30 But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

Acts 23.1: 23Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

Acts 23.2: 2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

Acts 23.3: 3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”

Acts 23.5: 5 Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”a

Acts 23.6: 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

Acts 23.7: 7 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.

Acts 23.8: 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

Acts 23.9: 9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

Acts 23.10: 10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

Acts 23.11: 11 The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

Acts 23.12: 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23.14: 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

Acts 23.15: 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Acts 23.16: 16 But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

Acts 23.17: 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

Acts 23.18: 18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

Acts 23.19: 19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

Acts 23.20: 20 He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

Acts 23.21: 21 Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

Acts 23.22: 22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”

Acts 23.23: 23 He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”1

Acts 23.24: 24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

Acts 23.26: 26 “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

Acts 23.27: 27 “This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

Acts 23.28: 28 Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

Acts 23.29: 29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

Acts 23.30: 30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

Acts 23.31: 31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

Acts 23.32: 32 But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

Acts 23.33: 33 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

Acts 23.34: 34 When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

Acts 23.35: 35 “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

Acts 24.1: 24After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

Acts 24.2: 2 When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

Acts 24.3: 3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

Acts 24.4: 4 But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

Acts 24.5: 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Acts 24.8: 8 3By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”

Acts 24.9: 9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

Acts 24.10: 10 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

Acts 24.11: 11 seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

Acts 24.12: 12 In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

Acts 24.13: 13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Acts 24.14: 14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

Acts 24.15: 15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Acts 24.16: 16 In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

Acts 24.17: 17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

Acts 24.18: 18 amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

Acts 24.19: 19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

Acts 24.20: 20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

Acts 24.21: 21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”

Acts 24.22: 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

Acts 24.23: 23 He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

Acts 24.24: 24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

Acts 24.25: 25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Acts 24.26: 26 Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.

Acts 24.27: 27 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

Acts 25.1: 25Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Acts 25.2: 2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

Acts 25.3: 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Acts 25.4: 4 However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

Acts 25.5: 5 “Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”

Acts 25.6: 6 When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

Acts 25.7: 7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

Acts 25.8: 8 while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

Acts 25.9: 9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

Acts 25.10: 10 But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

Acts 25.11: 11 For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Acts 25.12: 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

Acts 25.13: 13 Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

Acts 25.14: 14 As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

Acts 25.15: 15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

Acts 25.16: 16 I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Acts 25.17: 17 When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.

Acts 25.18: 18 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed;

Acts 25.19: 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Acts 25.20: 20 Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

Acts 25.21: 21 But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”

Acts 25.22: 22 Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.”

Acts 25.23: 23 So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Acts 25.24: 24 Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

Acts 25.25: 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

Acts 25.26: 26 of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.

Acts 25.27: 27 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”

Acts 26.2: 2 “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

Acts 26.3: 3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

Acts 26.4: 4 “Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

Acts 26.5: 5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Acts 26.6: 6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Acts 26.7: 7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

Acts 26.9: 9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 26.10: 10 I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

Acts 26.11: 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26.12: 12 “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

Acts 26.13: 13 at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

Acts 26.14: 14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Acts 26.16: 16 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

Acts 26.17: 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Acts 26.18: 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Acts 26.19: 19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Acts 26.20: 20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Acts 26.21: 21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Acts 26.22: 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Acts 26.23: 23 how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

Acts 26.24: 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Acts 26.25: 25 But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

Acts 26.26: 26 For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

Acts 26.27: 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

Acts 26.28: 28 Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

Acts 26.29: 29 Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

Acts 26.30: 30 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

Acts 26.31: 31 When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

Acts 26.32: 32 Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

Acts 27.1: 27When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

Acts 27.2: 2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

Acts 27.3: 3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

Acts 27.4: 4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

Acts 27.5: 5 When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

Acts 27.6: 6 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.

Acts 27.7: 7 When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

Acts 27.8: 8 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

Acts 27.9: 9 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them

Acts 27.10: 10 and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

Acts 27.11: 11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

Acts 27.12: 12 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.

Acts 27.13: 13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

Acts 27.14: 14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. 1

Acts 27.15: 15 When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

Acts 27.16: 16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.

Acts 27.17: 17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

Acts 27.18: 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

Acts 27.19: 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

Acts 27.20: 20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

Acts 27.21: 21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss.

Acts 27.22: 22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Acts 27.23: 23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

Acts 27.24: 24 saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

Acts 27.25: 25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Acts 27.27: 27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

Acts 27.28: 28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms.2 After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.3

Acts 27.29: 29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

Acts 27.30: 30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

Acts 27.31: 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”

Acts 27.32: 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

Acts 27.33: 33 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

Acts 27.34: 34 Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

Acts 27.35: 35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.

Acts 27.38: 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Acts 27.39: 39 When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

Acts 27.40: 40 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

Acts 27.41: 41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

Acts 27.42: 42 The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

Acts 27.43: 43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

Acts 27.44: 44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

Acts 28.1: 28When we had escaped, then they1 learned that the island was called Malta.

Acts 28.2: 2 The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

Acts 28.3: 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

Acts 28.4: 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

Acts 28.5: 5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

Acts 28.6: 6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

Acts 28.7: 7 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

Acts 28.8: 8 The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.

Acts 28.9: 9 Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured.

Acts 28.10: 10 They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.

Acts 28.11: 11 After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was “The Twin Brothers.”

Acts 28.13: 13 From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,

Acts 28.14: 14 where we found brothers,2 and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

Acts 28.15: 15 From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

Acts 28.16: 16 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

Acts 28.17: 17 After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Acts 28.18: 18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

Acts 28.19: 19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

Acts 28.20: 20 For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Acts 28.21: 21 They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

Acts 28.22: 22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

Acts 28.23: 23 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

Acts 28.24: 24 Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

Acts 28.25: 25 When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

Acts 28.28: 28 “Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Acts 28.29: 29 When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.3

Acts 28.30: 30 Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,

Acts 28.31: 31 preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

Romans 1.1: 1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Romans 1.2: 2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Romans 1.3: 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring1 of David according to the flesh,

Romans 1.4: 4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

Romans 1.5: 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

Romans 1.7: 7 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 1.8: 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Romans 1.9: 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Romans 1.10: 10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Romans 1.11: 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

Romans 1.12: 12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

Romans 1.13: 13 Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

Romans 1.14: 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Romans 1.15: 15 So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

Romans 1.16: 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Romans 1.17: 17 For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”a

Romans 1.18: 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Romans 1.19: 19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

Romans 1.20: 20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Romans 1.21: 21 Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Romans 1.23: 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

Romans 1.24: 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Romans 1.25: 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 1.26: 26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Romans 1.27: 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

Romans 1.28: 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Romans 1.29: 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Romans 1.30: 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Romans 1.31: 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Romans 1.32: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 2.1: 2Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Romans 2.2: 2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

Romans 2.3: 3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Romans 2.4: 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 2.5: 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Romans 2.7: 7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Romans 2.8: 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Romans 2.9: 9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 2.10: 10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 2.12: 12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Romans 2.13: 13 For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Romans 2.14: 14 (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Romans 2.15: 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Romans 2.16: 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Romans 2.17: 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

Romans 2.18: 18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Romans 2.19: 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Romans 2.20: 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Romans 2.21: 21 You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

Romans 2.22: 22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Romans 2.23: 23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Romans 2.24: 24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” b just as it is written.

Romans 2.25: 25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Romans 2.26: 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Romans 2.27: 27 Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

Romans 2.28: 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

Romans 2.29: 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Romans 3.1: 3Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Romans 3.2: 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

Romans 3.3: 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Romans 3.4: 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written,

Romans 3.5: 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

Romans 3.7: 7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Romans 3.8: 8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

Romans 3.9: 9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

Romans 3.19: 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Romans 3.20: 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3.21: 21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Romans 3.22: 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

Romans 3.24: 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Romans 3.25: 25 whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice,1 through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

Romans 3.26: 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3.27: 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Romans 3.28: 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 3.29: 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

Romans 3.30: 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Romans 3.31: 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Romans 4.1: 4What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

Romans 4.2: 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Romans 4.3: 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”a

Romans 4.4: 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

Romans 4.5: 5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Romans 4.6: 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

Romans 4.8: 8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” b

Romans 4.9: 9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

Romans 4.10: 10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Romans 4.11: 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

Romans 4.12: 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

Romans 4.13: 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4.14: 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

Romans 4.15: 15 For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Romans 4.16: 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Romans 4.17: 17 As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”c This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Romans 4.18: 18 Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”d

Romans 4.19: 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 4.20: 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Romans 4.21: 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

Romans 4.23: 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Romans 4.24: 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Romans 4.25: 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Romans 5.1: 5Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Romans 5.2: 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5.3: 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Romans 5.5: 5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 5.6: 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5.7: 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

Romans 5.8: 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5.9: 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Romans 5.10: 10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Romans 5.11: 11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Romans 5.12: 12 Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 5.13: 13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

Romans 5.14: 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

Romans 5.15: 15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Romans 5.16: 16 The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

Romans 5.17: 17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5.18: 18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

Romans 5.19: 19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Romans 5.20: 20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Romans 5.21: 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6.1: 6What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Romans 6.2: 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Romans 6.3: 3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Romans 6.4: 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6.5: 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

Romans 6.6: 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Romans 6.8: 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

Romans 6.9: 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

Romans 6.10: 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

Romans 6.11: 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6.12: 12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Romans 6.13: 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6.14: 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 6.15: 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

Romans 6.16: 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Romans 6.17: 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Romans 6.18: 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

Romans 6.19: 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 6.20: 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

Romans 6.21: 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 6.22: 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Romans 6.23: 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 7.1: 7Or don’t you know, brothers1 (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

Romans 7.2: 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Romans 7.3: 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Romans 7.4: 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Romans 7.5: 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

Romans 7.6: 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 7.7: 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”a

Romans 7.8: 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7.9: 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Romans 7.10: 10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

Romans 7.11: 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Romans 7.12: 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Romans 7.13: 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

Romans 7.14: 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Romans 7.15: 15 For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7.16: 16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

Romans 7.18: 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7.19: 19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

Romans 7.20: 20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Romans 7.21: 21 I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Romans 7.23: 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7.24: 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Romans 7.25: 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Romans 8.1: 8There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.1

Romans 8.2: 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 8.3: 3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8.4: 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8.5: 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8.6: 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8.7: 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8.9: 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8.10: 10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Romans 8.11: 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 8.12: 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8.13: 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Romans 8.14: 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Romans 8.15: 15 For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!2 Father!”

Romans 8.16: 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Romans 8.17: 17 and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 8.18: 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Romans 8.19: 19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Romans 8.20: 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Romans 8.21: 21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Romans 8.22: 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Romans 8.23: 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Romans 8.24: 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Romans 8.25: 25 But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 8.26: 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Romans 8.27: 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Romans 8.28: 28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8.29: 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.3

Romans 8.30: 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Romans 8.31: 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8.32: 32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Romans 8.33: 33 Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

Romans 8.34: 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Romans 8.35: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8.37: 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Romans 8.38: 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

Romans 8.39: 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9.1: 9I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Romans 9.3: 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

Romans 9.4: 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Romans 9.5: 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 9.6: 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Romans 9.7: 7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”a

Romans 9.8: 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

Romans 9.9: 9 For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”b

Romans 9.10: 10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

Romans 9.11: 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,1

Romans 9.14: 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

Romans 9.15: 15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”e

Romans 9.16: 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

Romans 9.17: 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”f

Romans 9.18: 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

Romans 9.19: 19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

Romans 9.20: 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”g

Romans 9.21: 21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Romans 9.22: 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Romans 9.23: 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Romans 9.24: 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9.26: 26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

Romans 9.30: 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

Romans 9.31: 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

Romans 9.32: 32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Romans 10.1: 10Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

Romans 10.2: 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 10.3: 3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Romans 10.4: 4 For Christ is the fulfillment1 of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 10.5: 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”a

Romans 10.6: 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’b (that is, to bring Christ down);

Romans 10.7: 7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’c (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”

Romans 10.8: 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;”d that is, the word of faith which we preach:

Romans 10.9: 9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10.10: 10 For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.

Romans 10.11: 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”e

Romans 10.12: 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

Romans 10.13: 13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”f

Romans 10.14: 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Romans 10.15: 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

Romans 10.16: 16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”h

Romans 10.21: 21 But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”l

Romans 11.1: 11I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11.2: 2 God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

Romans 11.3: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”a

Romans 11.4: 4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”b

Romans 11.5: 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Romans 11.6: 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Romans 11.7: 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

Romans 11.8: 8 According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.” c

Romans 11.11: 11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Romans 11.12: 12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

Romans 11.13: 13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

Romans 11.14: 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Romans 11.15: 15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Romans 11.16: 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 11.17: 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

Romans 11.18: 18 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

Romans 11.19: 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

Romans 11.20: 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

Romans 11.21: 21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

Romans 11.22: 22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Romans 11.23: 23 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Romans 11.24: 24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Romans 11.25: 25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers,1 of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Romans 11.28: 28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

Romans 11.30: 30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Romans 11.31: 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.

Romans 11.32: 32 For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

Romans 11.33: 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Romans 11.36: 36 For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Romans 12.1: 12Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Romans 12.2: 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Romans 12.3: 3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Romans 12.4: 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

Romans 12.5: 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Romans 12.6: 6 having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

Romans 12.7: 7 or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Romans 12.8: 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 12.9: 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Romans 12.10: 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Romans 12.12: 12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Romans 12.16: 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Romans 12.17: 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Romans 12.18: 18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Romans 12.19: 19 Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” a

Romans 13.1: 13Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Romans 13.2: 2 Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Romans 13.3: 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,

Romans 13.4: 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Romans 13.5: 5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

Romans 13.6: 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.

Romans 13.7: 7 Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Romans 13.8: 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13.9: 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”1 “You shall not covet,” a and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”b

Romans 13.10: 10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 13.11: 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Romans 13.12: 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Romans 13.13: 13 Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Romans 13.14: 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Romans 14.1: 14Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Romans 14.2: 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Romans 14.3: 3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Romans 14.4: 4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Romans 14.5: 5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Romans 14.6: 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

Romans 14.8: 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Romans 14.9: 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Romans 14.10: 10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Romans 14.13: 13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Romans 14.14: 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14.15: 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Romans 14.17: 17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14.18: 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Romans 14.19: 19 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Romans 14.20: 20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Romans 14.21: 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Romans 14.22: 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

Romans 14.23: 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Romans 14.24: 24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,

Romans 14.25: 25 but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;

Romans 14.26: 26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.1

Romans 15.1: 15Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15.2: 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Romans 15.3: 3 For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”a

Romans 15.4: 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 15.5: 5 Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

Romans 15.6: 6 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 15.7: 7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you,1 to the glory of God.

Romans 15.8: 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

Romans 15.9: 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

Romans 15.13: 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15.14: 14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers,2 that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

Romans 15.15: 15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

Romans 15.16: 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15.17: 17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

Romans 15.18: 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Romans 15.19: 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Romans 15.20: 20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

Romans 15.22: 22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

Romans 15.23: 23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

Romans 15.24: 24 whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

Romans 15.26: 26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

Romans 15.27: 27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Romans 15.28: 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

Romans 15.29: 29 I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

Romans 15.30: 30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Romans 15.31: 31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

Romans 15.32: 32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

Romans 16.1: 16I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant1 of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Romans 16.2: 2 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Romans 16.4: 4 who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

Romans 16.5: 5 Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

Romans 16.7: 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

Romans 16.9: 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

Romans 16.10: 10 Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

Romans 16.11: 11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Romans 16.12: 12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

Romans 16.14: 14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers 2 who are with them.

Romans 16.15: 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Romans 16.16: 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

Romans 16.17: 17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Romans 16.18: 18 For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Romans 16.19: 19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Romans 16.21: 21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

Romans 16.23: 23 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

1 Corinthians 1.1: 1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

1 Corinthians 1.2: 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

1 Corinthians 1.3: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1.4: 4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

1 Corinthians 1.5: 5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

1 Corinthians 1.7: 7 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

1 Corinthians 1.8: 8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1.9: 9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1.10: 10 Now I beg you, brothers,1 through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 1.11: 11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

1 Corinthians 1.12: 12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

1 Corinthians 1.13: 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

1 Corinthians 1.14: 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

1 Corinthians 1.15: 15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

1 Corinthians 1.16: 16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)

1 Corinthians 1.17: 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

1 Corinthians 1.18: 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1.20: 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1.21: 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1.23: 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

1 Corinthians 1.24: 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

1 Corinthians 1.25: 25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 1.26: 26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

1 Corinthians 1.27: 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

1 Corinthians 1.28: 28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

1 Corinthians 1.30: 30 Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

1 Corinthians 1.31: 31 that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”b

1 Corinthians 2.1: 2When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

1 Corinthians 2.2: 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

1 Corinthians 2.3: 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

1 Corinthians 2.4: 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

1 Corinthians 2.5: 5 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2.6: 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

1 Corinthians 2.7: 7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

1 Corinthians 2.8: 8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 2.10: 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 2.11: 11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2.12: 12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

1 Corinthians 2.13: 13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

1 Corinthians 2.14: 14 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 2.15: 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

1 Corinthians 2.16: 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” b But we have Christ’s mind.

1 Corinthians 3.1: 3Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3.2: 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

1 Corinthians 3.3: 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

1 Corinthians 3.4: 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

1 Corinthians 3.5: 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

1 Corinthians 3.7: 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

1 Corinthians 3.8: 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 3.9: 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

1 Corinthians 3.10: 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

1 Corinthians 3.11: 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3.12: 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

1 Corinthians 3.13: 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

1 Corinthians 3.14: 14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3.15: 15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

1 Corinthians 3.16: 16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3.17: 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

1 Corinthians 3.18: 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3.19: 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”a

1 Corinthians 3.20: 20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”b

1 Corinthians 3.21: 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

1 Corinthians 3.22: 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

1 Corinthians 4.1: 4So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

1 Corinthians 4.2: 2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

1 Corinthians 4.3: 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.

1 Corinthians 4.4: 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4.5: 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

1 Corinthians 4.6: 6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

1 Corinthians 4.7: 7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

1 Corinthians 4.8: 8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

1 Corinthians 4.9: 9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

1 Corinthians 4.10: 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

1 Corinthians 4.11: 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

1 Corinthians 4.12: 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

1 Corinthians 4.13: 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

1 Corinthians 4.14: 14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

1 Corinthians 4.15: 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

1 Corinthians 4.17: 17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

1 Corinthians 4.18: 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 4.19: 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

1 Corinthians 4.21: 21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

1 Corinthians 5.1: 5It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 5.2: 2 You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

1 Corinthians 5.3: 3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

1 Corinthians 5.4: 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Corinthians 5.5: 5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1 Corinthians 5.6: 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5.7: 7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

1 Corinthians 5.8: 8 Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5.9: 9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

1 Corinthians 5.10: 10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

1 Corinthians 5.11: 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

1 Corinthians 5.12: 12 For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

1 Corinthians 5.13: 13 But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”a

1 Corinthians 6.1: 6Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

1 Corinthians 6.2: 2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

1 Corinthians 6.3: 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

1 Corinthians 6.4: 4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

1 Corinthians 6.5: 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

1 Corinthians 6.6: 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

1 Corinthians 6.7: 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

1 Corinthians 6.8: 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

1 Corinthians 6.9: 9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6.10: 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

1 Corinthians 6.11: 11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6.12: 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

1 Corinthians 6.13: 13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6.14: 14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

1 Corinthians 6.15: 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

1 Corinthians 6.16: 16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”a

1 Corinthians 6.18: 18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6.19: 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 6.20: 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

1 Corinthians 7.1: 7Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7.2: 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7.3: 3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her,1 and likewise also the wife her husband.

1 Corinthians 7.4: 4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

1 Corinthians 7.5: 5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7.7: 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

1 Corinthians 7.8: 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

1 Corinthians 7.9: 9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 7.10: 10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

1 Corinthians 7.11: 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

1 Corinthians 7.12: 12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

1 Corinthians 7.13: 13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

1 Corinthians 7.14: 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7.15: 15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

1 Corinthians 7.16: 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

1 Corinthians 7.17: 17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

1 Corinthians 7.18: 18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

1 Corinthians 7.19: 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

1 Corinthians 7.20: 20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

1 Corinthians 7.21: 21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

1 Corinthians 7.22: 22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

1 Corinthians 7.23: 23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

1 Corinthians 7.24: 24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

1 Corinthians 7.25: 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

1 Corinthians 7.26: 26 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

1 Corinthians 7.27: 27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

1 Corinthians 7.28: 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

1 Corinthians 7.29: 29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

1 Corinthians 7.30: 30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

1 Corinthians 7.31: 31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

1 Corinthians 7.32: 32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

1 Corinthians 7.33: 33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

1 Corinthians 7.34: 34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

1 Corinthians 7.35: 35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

1 Corinthians 7.36: 36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

1 Corinthians 7.37: 37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.

1 Corinthians 7.38: 38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

1 Corinthians 7.39: 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7.40: 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

1 Corinthians 8.1: 8Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8.2: 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8.4: 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

1 Corinthians 8.5: 5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

1 Corinthians 8.6: 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

1 Corinthians 8.7: 7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8.8: 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

1 Corinthians 8.9: 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8.10: 10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8.11: 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8.12: 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8.13: 13 Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9.1: 9Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 9.2: 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 9.5: 5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

1 Corinthians 9.7: 7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

1 Corinthians 9.8: 8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

1 Corinthians 9.9: 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”a Is it for the oxen that God cares,

1 Corinthians 9.10: 10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

1 Corinthians 9.11: 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

1 Corinthians 9.12: 12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9.13: 13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

1 Corinthians 9.14: 14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9.15: 15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

1 Corinthians 9.16: 16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9.17: 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

1 Corinthians 9.18: 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9.19: 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 9.20: 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

1 Corinthians 9.21: 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

1 Corinthians 9.22: 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

1 Corinthians 9.23: 23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

1 Corinthians 9.24: 24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

1 Corinthians 9.25: 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

1 Corinthians 9.26: 26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

1 Corinthians 9.27: 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

1 Corinthians 10.1: 10Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

1 Corinthians 10.2: 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

1 Corinthians 10.4: 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 10.5: 5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10.6: 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

1 Corinthians 10.7: 7 Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”a

1 Corinthians 10.8: 8 Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

1 Corinthians 10.9: 9 Let’s not test Christ,1 as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

1 Corinthians 10.10: 10 Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

1 Corinthians 10.11: 11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

1 Corinthians 10.12: 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

1 Corinthians 10.13: 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 10.16: 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

1 Corinthians 10.17: 17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

1 Corinthians 10.18: 18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

1 Corinthians 10.19: 19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 10.20: 20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

1 Corinthians 10.21: 21 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 10.22: 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

1 Corinthians 10.23: 23 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

1 Corinthians 10.24: 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

1 Corinthians 10.25: 25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

1 Corinthians 10.27: 27 But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

1 Corinthians 10.28: 28 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”

1 Corinthians 10.29: 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

1 Corinthians 10.30: 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?

1 Corinthians 10.31: 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10.32: 32 Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

1 Corinthians 10.33: 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 11.2: 2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 11.3: 3 But I would have you know that the head1 of every man is Christ, and the head2 of the woman is man, and the head3 of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11.4: 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

1 Corinthians 11.5: 5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

1 Corinthians 11.6: 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.

1 Corinthians 11.7: 7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

1 Corinthians 11.9: 9 for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

1 Corinthians 11.10: 10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

1 Corinthians 11.11: 11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11.12: 12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

1 Corinthians 11.13: 13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

1 Corinthians 11.14: 14 Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

1 Corinthians 11.15: 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

1 Corinthians 11.16: 16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

1 Corinthians 11.17: 17 But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

1 Corinthians 11.18: 18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

1 Corinthians 11.19: 19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

1 Corinthians 11.20: 20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

1 Corinthians 11.21: 21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

1 Corinthians 11.22: 22 What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

1 Corinthians 11.23: 23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

1 Corinthians 11.24: 24 When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

1 Corinthians 11.25: 25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

1 Corinthians 11.26: 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

1 Corinthians 11.27: 27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11.28: 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

1 Corinthians 11.29: 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.

1 Corinthians 11.30: 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

1 Corinthians 11.32: 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

1 Corinthians 11.33: 33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

1 Corinthians 11.34: 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

1 Corinthians 12.1: 12Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

1 Corinthians 12.2: 2 You know that when you were heathen,1 you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

1 Corinthians 12.3: 3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12.4: 4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12.6: 6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

1 Corinthians 12.7: 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

1 Corinthians 12.8: 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

1 Corinthians 12.9: 9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

1 Corinthians 12.10: 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

1 Corinthians 12.11: 11 But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

1 Corinthians 12.12: 12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

1 Corinthians 12.13: 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12.15: 15 If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12.16: 16 If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12.17: 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

1 Corinthians 12.18: 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

1 Corinthians 12.21: 21 The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”

1 Corinthians 12.22: 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

1 Corinthians 12.23: 23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

1 Corinthians 12.24: 24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

1 Corinthians 12.25: 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

1 Corinthians 12.26: 26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

1 Corinthians 12.27: 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

1 Corinthians 12.28: 28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

1 Corinthians 12.29: 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

1 Corinthians 12.30: 30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

1 Corinthians 12.31: 31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

1 Corinthians 13.1: 13If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13.2: 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13.3: 3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

1 Corinthians 13.4: 4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

1 Corinthians 13.5: 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

1 Corinthians 13.6: 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

1 Corinthians 13.7: 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13.8: 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

1 Corinthians 13.10: 10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

1 Corinthians 13.11: 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 13.12: 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

1 Corinthians 13.13: 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 14.1: 14Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14.2: 2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

1 Corinthians 14.3: 3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

1 Corinthians 14.4: 4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

1 Corinthians 14.5: 5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

1 Corinthians 14.6: 6 But now, brothers,1 if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

1 Corinthians 14.7: 7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

1 Corinthians 14.8: 8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

1 Corinthians 14.9: 9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

1 Corinthians 14.10: 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

1 Corinthians 14.11: 11 If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

1 Corinthians 14.12: 12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

1 Corinthians 14.13: 13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

1 Corinthians 14.14: 14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

1 Corinthians 14.15: 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

1 Corinthians 14.16: 16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

1 Corinthians 14.17: 17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

1 Corinthians 14.18: 18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

1 Corinthians 14.19: 19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

1 Corinthians 14.20: 20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

1 Corinthians 14.21: 21 In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”a

1 Corinthians 14.22: 22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

1 Corinthians 14.23: 23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

1 Corinthians 14.24: 24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

1 Corinthians 14.25: 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

1 Corinthians 14.26: 26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

1 Corinthians 14.27: 27 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

1 Corinthians 14.28: 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

1 Corinthians 14.29: 29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

1 Corinthians 14.30: 30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

1 Corinthians 14.31: 31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

1 Corinthians 14.32: 32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

1 Corinthians 14.33: 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

1 Corinthians 14.34: 34 Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,b

1 Corinthians 14.35: 35 if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”

1 Corinthians 14.36: 36 What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

1 Corinthians 14.37: 37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14.39: 39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

1 Corinthians 15.1: 15Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

1 Corinthians 15.2: 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 15.3: 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 15.4: 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 15.6: 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15.8: 8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

1 Corinthians 15.9: 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

1 Corinthians 15.10: 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Corinthians 15.11: 11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

1 Corinthians 15.12: 12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

1 Corinthians 15.13: 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

1 Corinthians 15.14: 14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

1 Corinthians 15.15: 15 Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

1 Corinthians 15.16: 16 For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.

1 Corinthians 15.17: 17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15.18: 18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

1 Corinthians 15.19: 19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

1 Corinthians 15.20: 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

1 Corinthians 15.21: 21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

1 Corinthians 15.22: 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15.23: 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

1 Corinthians 15.24: 24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

1 Corinthians 15.25: 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

1 Corinthians 15.27: 27 For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.”a But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

1 Corinthians 15.28: 28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

1 Corinthians 15.29: 29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

1 Corinthians 15.31: 31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

1 Corinthians 15.32: 32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”b

1 Corinthians 15.33: 33 Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

1 Corinthians 15.34: 34 Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 15.35: 35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

1 Corinthians 15.36: 36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

1 Corinthians 15.37: 37 That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

1 Corinthians 15.38: 38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

1 Corinthians 15.39: 39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

1 Corinthians 15.40: 40 There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.

1 Corinthians 15.41: 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

1 Corinthians 15.42: 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15.43: 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

1 Corinthians 15.44: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15.45: 45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” c The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15.46: 46 However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15.47: 47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15.48: 48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

1 Corinthians 15.49: 49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s1 also bear the image of the heavenly.

1 Corinthians 15.50: 50 Now I say this, brothers,2 that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15.51: 51 Behold,3 I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

1 Corinthians 15.52: 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15.53: 53 For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1 Corinthians 15.54: 54 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”d

1 Corinthians 15.56: 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 Corinthians 15.57: 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15.58: 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 16.1: 16Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

1 Corinthians 16.2: 2 On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

1 Corinthians 16.3: 3 When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 16.4: 4 If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.

1 Corinthians 16.5: 5 But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

1 Corinthians 16.6: 6 But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

1 Corinthians 16.7: 7 For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

1 Corinthians 16.9: 9 for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

1 Corinthians 16.10: 10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

1 Corinthians 16.11: 11 Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

1 Corinthians 16.12: 12 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

1 Corinthians 16.13: 13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

1 Corinthians 16.15: 15 Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

1 Corinthians 16.16: 16 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

1 Corinthians 16.17: 17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.

1 Corinthians 16.18: 18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

1 Corinthians 16.19: 19 The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

1 Corinthians 16.20: 20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

1 Corinthians 16.22: 22 If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. 1 Come, Lord!2

2 Corinthians 1.1: 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

2 Corinthians 1.2: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1.3: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

2 Corinthians 1.4: 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 1.5: 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

2 Corinthians 1.6: 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

2 Corinthians 1.7: 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

2 Corinthians 1.8: 8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers,1 concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

2 Corinthians 1.9: 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

2 Corinthians 1.10: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

2 Corinthians 1.11: 11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 1.12: 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

2 Corinthians 1.13: 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end,

2 Corinthians 1.14: 14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1.15: 15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

2 Corinthians 1.16: 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

2 Corinthians 1.17: 17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

2 Corinthians 1.18: 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

2 Corinthians 1.19: 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

2 Corinthians 1.20: 20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

2 Corinthians 1.21: 21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

2 Corinthians 1.22: 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

2 Corinthians 1.23: 23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

2 Corinthians 1.24: 24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

2 Corinthians 2.1: 2But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2.2: 2 For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

2 Corinthians 2.3: 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

2 Corinthians 2.4: 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

2 Corinthians 2.5: 5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

2 Corinthians 2.6: 6 This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;

2 Corinthians 2.7: 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2.9: 9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

2 Corinthians 2.10: 10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

2 Corinthians 2.11: 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

2 Corinthians 2.12: 12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

2 Corinthians 2.13: 13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 2.14: 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

2 Corinthians 2.15: 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

2 Corinthians 2.16: 16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 2.17: 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3.1: 3Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 3.2: 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

2 Corinthians 3.3: 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3.5: 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

2 Corinthians 3.6: 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3.7: 7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

2 Corinthians 3.9: 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

2 Corinthians 3.10: 10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

2 Corinthians 3.11: 11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

2 Corinthians 3.12: 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

2 Corinthians 3.13: 13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

2 Corinthians 3.14: 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

2 Corinthians 3.15: 15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

2 Corinthians 3.16: 16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

2 Corinthians 3.17: 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 3.18: 18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4.1: 4Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

2 Corinthians 4.2: 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4.3: 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

2 Corinthians 4.4: 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

2 Corinthians 4.5: 5 For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

2 Corinthians 4.6: 6 seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,”a who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4.7: 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 4.8: 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

2 Corinthians 4.10: 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

2 Corinthians 4.11: 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 4.13: 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.”b We also believe, and therefore we also speak;

2 Corinthians 4.14: 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

2 Corinthians 4.15: 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 4.16: 16 Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4.17: 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

2 Corinthians 4.18: 18 while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5.1: 5For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5.2: 2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

2 Corinthians 5.4: 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

2 Corinthians 5.5: 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5.6: 6 Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

2 Corinthians 5.8: 8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5.9: 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

2 Corinthians 5.10: 10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5.11: 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 5.12: 12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

2 Corinthians 5.13: 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 5.14: 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

2 Corinthians 5.15: 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

2 Corinthians 5.16: 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

2 Corinthians 5.17: 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,1 all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5.18: 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

2 Corinthians 5.19: 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5.20: 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5.21: 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 6.1: 6Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

2 Corinthians 6.3: 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

2 Corinthians 6.4: 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 6.5: 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

2 Corinthians 6.6: 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

2 Corinthians 6.7: 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

2 Corinthians 6.8: 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

2 Corinthians 6.9: 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

2 Corinthians 6.10: 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

2 Corinthians 6.11: 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 6.12: 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

2 Corinthians 6.13: 13 Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.

2 Corinthians 6.14: 14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6.15: 15 What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

2 Corinthians 6.16: 16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”b

2 Corinthians 7.1: 7Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2 Corinthians 7.2: 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

2 Corinthians 7.3: 3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

2 Corinthians 7.4: 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

2 Corinthians 7.5: 5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

2 Corinthians 7.6: 6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

2 Corinthians 7.7: 7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

2 Corinthians 7.8: 8 For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.

2 Corinthians 7.9: 9 I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

2 Corinthians 7.10: 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

2 Corinthians 7.11: 11 For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

2 Corinthians 7.12: 12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 7.13: 13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

2 Corinthians 7.14: 14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

2 Corinthians 7.15: 15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

2 Corinthians 7.16: 16 I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

2 Corinthians 8.1: 8Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

2 Corinthians 8.2: 2 how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

2 Corinthians 8.3: 3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

2 Corinthians 8.4: 4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

2 Corinthians 8.5: 5 This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

2 Corinthians 8.6: 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

2 Corinthians 8.7: 7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

2 Corinthians 8.8: 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

2 Corinthians 8.9: 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 8.10: 10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

2 Corinthians 8.11: 11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

2 Corinthians 8.12: 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

2 Corinthians 8.13: 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

2 Corinthians 8.14: 14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

2 Corinthians 8.15: 15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”a

2 Corinthians 8.16: 16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

2 Corinthians 8.17: 17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

2 Corinthians 8.18: 18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

2 Corinthians 8.19: 19 Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

2 Corinthians 8.20: 20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

2 Corinthians 8.21: 21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

2 Corinthians 8.22: 22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

2 Corinthians 8.23: 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

2 Corinthians 8.24: 24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 9.1: 9It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

2 Corinthians 9.2: 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

2 Corinthians 9.3: 3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

2 Corinthians 9.4: 4 lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.

2 Corinthians 9.5: 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

2 Corinthians 9.6: 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

2 Corinthians 9.7: 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9.8: 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

2 Corinthians 9.10: 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

2 Corinthians 9.11: 11 you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.

2 Corinthians 9.12: 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,

2 Corinthians 9.13: 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

2 Corinthians 9.14: 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

2 Corinthians 10.1: 10Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

2 Corinthians 10.2: 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10.3: 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

2 Corinthians 10.4: 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

2 Corinthians 10.5: 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

2 Corinthians 10.6: 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

2 Corinthians 10.7: 7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

2 Corinthians 10.8: 8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

2 Corinthians 10.9: 9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

2 Corinthians 10.10: 10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

2 Corinthians 10.11: 11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

2 Corinthians 10.12: 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10.13: 13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

2 Corinthians 10.14: 14 For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

2 Corinthians 10.15: 15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

2 Corinthians 10.16: 16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

2 Corinthians 10.18: 18 For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 11.1: 11I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

2 Corinthians 11.2: 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11.3: 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11.4: 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

2 Corinthians 11.5: 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

2 Corinthians 11.6: 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

2 Corinthians 11.7: 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

2 Corinthians 11.8: 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

2 Corinthians 11.9: 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

2 Corinthians 11.10: 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 11.12: 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

2 Corinthians 11.13: 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

2 Corinthians 11.14: 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11.15: 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

2 Corinthians 11.16: 16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

2 Corinthians 11.17: 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

2 Corinthians 11.18: 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

2 Corinthians 11.20: 20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

2 Corinthians 11.21: 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

2 Corinthians 11.22: 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring1 of Abraham? So am I.

2 Corinthians 11.23: 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 11.24: 24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

2 Corinthians 11.25: 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

2 Corinthians 11.26: 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

2 Corinthians 11.27: 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 11.28: 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

2 Corinthians 11.29: 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

2 Corinthians 11.30: 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

2 Corinthians 11.31: 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

2 Corinthians 11.32: 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.

2 Corinthians 11.33: 33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.

2 Corinthians 12.1: 12It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12.2: 2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

2 Corinthians 12.3: 3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),

2 Corinthians 12.4: 4 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

2 Corinthians 12.5: 5 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

2 Corinthians 12.6: 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.

2 Corinthians 12.7: 7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

2 Corinthians 12.8: 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

2 Corinthians 12.9: 9 He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12.10: 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12.11: 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12.12: 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

2 Corinthians 12.13: 13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

2 Corinthians 12.14: 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2 Corinthians 12.15: 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

2 Corinthians 12.16: 16 Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. “But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”

2 Corinthians 12.17: 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?

2 Corinthians 12.18: 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?

2 Corinthians 12.19: 19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

2 Corinthians 12.20: 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

2 Corinthians 12.21: 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

2 Corinthians 13.1: 13This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”a

2 Corinthians 13.2: 2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

2 Corinthians 13.3: 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

2 Corinthians 13.4: 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

2 Corinthians 13.5: 5 Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

2 Corinthians 13.6: 6 But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.

2 Corinthians 13.7: 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

2 Corinthians 13.8: 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

2 Corinthians 13.9: 9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

2 Corinthians 13.10: 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 13.11: 11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 13.14: 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Galatians 1.1: 1Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Galatians 1.2: 2 and all the brothers1 who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

Galatians 1.3: 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Galatians 1.4: 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Galatians 1.6: 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

Galatians 1.7: 7 but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

Galatians 1.8: 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Galatians 1.9: 9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

Galatians 1.10: 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 1.11: 11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

Galatians 1.12: 12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1.13: 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

Galatians 1.14: 14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Galatians 1.15: 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

Galatians 1.16: 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Galatians 1.17: 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

Galatians 1.18: 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

Galatians 1.19: 19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

Galatians 1.20: 20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold,2 before God, I’m not lying.

Galatians 1.22: 22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

Galatians 1.23: 23 but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

Galatians 2.1: 2Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

Galatians 2.2: 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Galatians 2.3: 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Galatians 2.4: 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Galatians 2.5: 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

Galatians 2.6: 6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

Galatians 2.7: 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

Galatians 2.8: 8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

Galatians 2.9: 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Galatians 2.10: 10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

Galatians 2.11: 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Galatians 2.12: 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Galatians 2.13: 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Galatians 2.14: 14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

Galatians 2.16: 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 2.17: 17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

Galatians 2.18: 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Galatians 2.19: 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 2.20: 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Galatians 2.21: 21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Galatians 3.1: 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.

Galatians 4.1: 4But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,

Galatians 4.2: 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

Galatians 4.3: 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Galatians 4.4: 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Galatians 4.5: 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Galatians 4.6: 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,1 Father!”

Galatians 4.7: 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Galatians 4.8: 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

Galatians 4.9: 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Galatians 4.11: 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Galatians 4.12: 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

Galatians 4.13: 13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

Galatians 4.14: 14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4.15: 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

Galatians 4.17: 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

Galatians 4.18: 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

Galatians 4.19: 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Galatians 4.20: 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Galatians 4.21: 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

Galatians 4.22: 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

Galatians 4.23: 23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

Galatians 4.24: 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

Galatians 4.25: 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

Galatians 4.26: 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Galatians 4.29: 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Galatians 4.30: 30 However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”b

Galatians 4.31: 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

Galatians 5.1: 5Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5.2: 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Galatians 5.3: 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Galatians 5.4: 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Galatians 5.5: 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

Galatians 5.6: 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Galatians 5.7: 7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Galatians 5.10: 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Galatians 5.11: 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

Galatians 5.13: 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Galatians 5.14: 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”a

Galatians 5.15: 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

Galatians 5.16: 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5.17: 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Galatians 5.19: 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Galatians 5.20: 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

Galatians 5.21: 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Galatians 5.22: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,1

Galatians 5.23: 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5.24: 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 5.26: 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

Galatians 6.1: 6Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Galatians 6.2: 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6.3: 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Galatians 6.4: 4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Galatians 6.6: 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Galatians 6.7: 7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Galatians 6.8: 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Galatians 6.9: 9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Galatians 6.10: 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Galatians 6.12: 12 As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Galatians 6.13: 13 For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Galatians 6.14: 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Galatians 6.15: 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Galatians 6.16: 16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

Galatians 6.17: 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

Galatians 6.18: 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

Ephesians 1.1: 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 1.2: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1.3: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Ephesians 1.4: 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Ephesians 1.5: 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Ephesians 1.6: 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

Ephesians 1.7: 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Ephesians 1.9: 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Ephesians 1.10: 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

Ephesians 1.11: 11 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Ephesians 1.12: 12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

Ephesians 1.13: 13 In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 1.14: 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1.15: 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

Ephesians 1.16: 16 don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Ephesians 1.17: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Ephesians 1.18: 18 having the eyes of your hearts1 enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 1.19: 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Ephesians 1.20: 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1.21: 21 far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Ephesians 1.22: 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Ephesians 2.1: 2You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2.2: 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Ephesians 2.3: 3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Ephesians 2.4: 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

Ephesians 2.5: 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 2.6: 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 2.7: 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

Ephesians 2.8: 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2.10: 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2.11: 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

Ephesians 2.12: 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2.13: 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2.14: 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

Ephesians 2.15: 15 having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

Ephesians 2.16: 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

Ephesians 2.17: 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

Ephesians 2.18: 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Ephesians 2.19: 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

Ephesians 2.20: 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Ephesians 2.21: 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Ephesians 2.22: 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 3.1: 3For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Ephesians 3.2: 2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

Ephesians 3.3: 3 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

Ephesians 3.4: 4 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

Ephesians 3.5: 5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

Ephesians 3.6: 6 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

Ephesians 3.7: 7 of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Ephesians 3.8: 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Ephesians 3.9: 9 and to make all men see what is the administration1 of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 3.10: 10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 3.11: 11 according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 3.12: 12 In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Ephesians 3.13: 13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Ephesians 3.14: 14 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 3.16: 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Ephesians 3.17: 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Ephesians 3.18: 18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

Ephesians 3.19: 19 and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3.20: 20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Ephesians 3.21: 21 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 4.1: 4I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Ephesians 4.2: 2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 4.3: 3 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4.4: 4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Ephesians 4.6: 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

Ephesians 4.7: 7 But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Ephesians 4.9: 9 Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Ephesians 4.10: 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

Ephesians 4.11: 11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds1 and teachers;

Ephesians 4.12: 12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

Ephesians 4.13: 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Ephesians 4.14: 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Ephesians 4.15: 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

Ephesians 4.16: 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Ephesians 4.17: 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Ephesians 4.18: 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

Ephesians 4.19: 19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Ephesians 4.21: 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

Ephesians 4.22: 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Ephesians 4.24: 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Ephesians 4.25: 25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4.26: 26 “Be angry, and don’t sin.”b Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Ephesians 4.28: 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Ephesians 4.29: 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 4.30: 30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Ephesians 4.31: 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Ephesians 4.32: 32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 5.2: 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Ephesians 5.3: 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Ephesians 5.4: 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Ephesians 5.5: 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Ephesians 5.6: 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Ephesians 5.8: 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Ephesians 5.9: 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Ephesians 5.11: 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Ephesians 5.12: 12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

Ephesians 5.13: 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

Ephesians 5.14: 14 Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 5.15: 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

Ephesians 5.17: 17 Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 5.18: 18 Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Ephesians 5.19: 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Ephesians 5.20: 20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Ephesians 5.23: 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Ephesians 5.24: 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5.25: 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Ephesians 5.26: 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Ephesians 5.27: 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

Ephesians 5.28: 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5.29: 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Ephesians 5.31: 31 “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”a

Ephesians 5.32: 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Ephesians 5.33: 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 6.2: 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Ephesians 6.3: 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” a

Ephesians 6.4: 4 You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6.5: 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

Ephesians 6.6: 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Ephesians 6.8: 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Ephesians 6.9: 9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Ephesians 6.10: 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Ephesians 6.11: 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Ephesians 6.12: 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6.13: 13 Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Ephesians 6.14: 14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Ephesians 6.15: 15 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,

Ephesians 6.16: 16 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Ephesians 6.17: 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word1 of God;

Ephesians 6.18: 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Ephesians 6.19: 19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

Ephesians 6.20: 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Ephesians 6.21: 21 But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.

Ephesians 6.22: 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

Ephesians 6.23: 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 6.24: 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers 1 and servants:2

Philippians 1.2: 2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1.4: 4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

Philippians 1.5: 5 for your partnership3 in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

Philippians 1.6: 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1.7: 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Philippians 1.8: 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 1.9: 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 1.10: 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Philippians 1.11: 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 1.12: 12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,4 that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

Philippians 1.13: 13 so that it became evident to the whole palace5 guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

Philippians 1.14: 14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

Philippians 1.15: 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

Philippians 1.16: 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

Philippians 1.17: 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

Philippians 1.18: 18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

Philippians 1.19: 19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Philippians 1.20: 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Philippians 1.22: 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

Philippians 1.23: 23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Philippians 1.25: 25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

Philippians 1.26: 26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

Philippians 1.27: 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Philippians 1.28: 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Philippians 1.29: 29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Philippians 1.30: 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

Philippians 2.1: 2If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

Philippians 2.2: 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Philippians 2.3: 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Philippians 2.4: 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Philippians 2.6: 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Philippians 2.7: 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Philippians 2.8: 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Philippians 2.9: 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

Philippians 2.10: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

Philippians 2.11: 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2.12: 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Philippians 2.13: 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Philippians 2.15: 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Philippians 2.16: 16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Philippians 2.17: 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Philippians 2.19: 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

Philippians 2.20: 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

Philippians 2.21: 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2.22: 22 But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Philippians 2.23: 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

Philippians 2.24: 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

Philippians 2.25: 25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

Philippians 2.26: 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

Philippians 2.27: 27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

Philippians 2.28: 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Philippians 2.29: 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

Philippians 2.30: 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Philippians 3.1: 3Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

Philippians 3.2: 2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Philippians 3.3: 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

Philippians 3.4: 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

Philippians 3.5: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Philippians 3.6: 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

Philippians 3.7: 7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

Philippians 3.8: 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Philippians 3.9: 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Philippians 3.10: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

Philippians 3.11: 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 3.12: 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3.13: 13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Philippians 3.14: 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3.15: 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

Philippians 3.16: 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

Philippians 3.17: 17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

Philippians 3.18: 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

Philippians 3.19: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Philippians 3.20: 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Philippians 3.21: 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 4.1: 4Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Philippians 4.2: 2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

Philippians 4.3: 3 Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Philippians 4.5: 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Philippians 4.6: 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Philippians 4.7: 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4.8: 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Philippians 4.9: 9 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Philippians 4.10: 10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

Philippians 4.11: 11 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Philippians 4.12: 12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Philippians 4.15: 15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

Philippians 4.16: 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Philippians 4.17: 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

Philippians 4.18: 18 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Philippians 4.19: 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4.20: 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

Philippians 4.21: 21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.

Philippians 4.22: 22 All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

Colossians 1.1: 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1.2: 2 to the saints and faithful brothers1 in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1.3: 3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Colossians 1.4: 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

Colossians 1.5: 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

Colossians 1.6: 6 which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

Colossians 1.7: 7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your2 behalf,

Colossians 1.9: 9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 1.10: 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 1.11: 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Colossians 1.12: 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Colossians 1.13: 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Colossians 1.14: 14 in whom we have our redemption,3 the forgiveness of our sins.

Colossians 1.15: 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Colossians 1.16: 16 For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

Colossians 1.17: 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Colossians 1.18: 18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Colossians 1.20: 20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Colossians 1.21: 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

Colossians 1.22: 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

Colossians 1.23: 23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Colossians 1.24: 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Colossians 1.25: 25 of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

Colossians 1.26: 26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

Colossians 1.27: 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1.28: 28 We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Colossians 1.29: 29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Colossians 2.1: 2For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Colossians 2.2: 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Colossians 2.4: 4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Colossians 2.5: 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 2.6: 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

Colossians 2.7: 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Colossians 2.8: 8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Colossians 2.10: 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

Colossians 2.11: 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

Colossians 2.12: 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Colossians 2.13: 13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Colossians 2.14: 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2.15: 15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Colossians 2.16: 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Colossians 2.17: 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

Colossians 2.18: 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2.19: 19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Colossians 2.20: 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Colossians 2.22: 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

Colossians 2.23: 23 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Colossians 3.1: 3If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Colossians 3.2: 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Colossians 3.4: 4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

Colossians 3.5: 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3.6: 6 For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Colossians 3.8: 8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Colossians 3.9: 9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Colossians 3.10: 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Colossians 3.11: 11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Colossians 3.12: 12 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Colossians 3.13: 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Colossians 3.14: 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Colossians 3.15: 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Colossians 3.16: 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Colossians 3.17: 17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Colossians 3.18: 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Colossians 3.19: 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Colossians 3.20: 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Colossians 3.21: 21 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Colossians 3.22: 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Colossians 3.23: 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Colossians 3.24: 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Colossians 3.25: 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Colossians 4.1: 4Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Colossians 4.2: 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Colossians 4.3: 3 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

Colossians 4.5: 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Colossians 4.6: 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Colossians 4.7: 7 All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

Colossians 4.8: 8 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

Colossians 4.9: 9 together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

Colossians 4.10: 10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),

Colossians 4.11: 11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.

Colossians 4.12: 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Colossians 4.13: 13 For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

Colossians 4.15: 15 Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.

Colossians 4.16: 16 When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

Colossians 4.17: 17 Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

Colossians 4.18: 18 The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 1.1: 1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1.2: 2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

1 Thessalonians 1.3: 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

1 Thessalonians 1.5: 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 1.6: 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 1.7: 7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

1 Thessalonians 1.8: 8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

1 Thessalonians 1.9: 9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

1 Thessalonians 1.10: 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 2.1: 2For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

1 Thessalonians 2.2: 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

1 Thessalonians 2.3: 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

1 Thessalonians 2.4: 4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

1 Thessalonians 2.5: 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

1 Thessalonians 2.6: 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2.7: 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

1 Thessalonians 2.8: 8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2.9: 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

1 Thessalonians 2.10: 10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 2.11: 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

1 Thessalonians 2.12: 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 2.13: 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 2.14: 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

1 Thessalonians 2.15: 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

1 Thessalonians 2.16: 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

1 Thessalonians 2.17: 17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

1 Thessalonians 2.18: 18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

1 Thessalonians 2.19: 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus1 at his coming?

1 Thessalonians 3.1: 3Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

1 Thessalonians 3.2: 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

1 Thessalonians 3.3: 3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

1 Thessalonians 3.4: 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

1 Thessalonians 3.5: 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

1 Thessalonians 3.6: 6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

1 Thessalonians 3.7: 7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3.9: 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

1 Thessalonians 3.10: 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

1 Thessalonians 3.11: 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

1 Thessalonians 3.12: 12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

1 Thessalonians 3.13: 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 4.1: 4Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

1 Thessalonians 4.2: 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4.3: 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

1 Thessalonians 4.4: 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body1 in sanctification and honor,

1 Thessalonians 4.5: 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

1 Thessalonians 4.6: 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

1 Thessalonians 4.7: 7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 4.8: 8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

1 Thessalonians 4.9: 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

1 Thessalonians 4.10: 10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

1 Thessalonians 4.11: 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

1 Thessalonians 4.12: 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

1 Thessalonians 4.13: 13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4.14: 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4.15: 15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

1 Thessalonians 4.16: 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

1 Thessalonians 4.17: 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

1 Thessalonians 5.1: 5But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

1 Thessalonians 5.2: 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5.3: 3 For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

1 Thessalonians 5.4: 4 But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5.5: 5 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

1 Thessalonians 5.6: 6 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

1 Thessalonians 5.7: 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5.8: 8 But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5.9: 9 For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5.10: 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

1 Thessalonians 5.11: 11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

1 Thessalonians 5.12: 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

1 Thessalonians 5.13: 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake.

1 Thessalonians 5.14: 14 We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

1 Thessalonians 5.15: 15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

1 Thessalonians 5.18: 18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

1 Thessalonians 5.23: 23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5.27: 27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

2 Thessalonians 1.1: 1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Thessalonians 1.2: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1.3: 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,1 even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

2 Thessalonians 1.4: 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

2 Thessalonians 1.5: 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

2 Thessalonians 1.6: 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

2 Thessalonians 1.7: 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

2 Thessalonians 1.8: 8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

2 Thessalonians 1.9: 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

2 Thessalonians 1.10: 10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

2 Thessalonians 1.11: 11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

2 Thessalonians 1.12: 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus2 may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2.1: 2Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you

2 Thessalonians 2.2: 2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.

2 Thessalonians 2.3: 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion1 comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

2 Thessalonians 2.4: 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

2 Thessalonians 2.5: 5 Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

2 Thessalonians 2.6: 6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

2 Thessalonians 2.7: 7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2.8: 8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

2 Thessalonians 2.9: 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

2 Thessalonians 2.10: 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2 Thessalonians 2.11: 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

2 Thessalonians 2.12: 12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2.13: 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

2 Thessalonians 2.14: 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2.15: 15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

2 Thessalonians 2.16: 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

2 Thessalonians 2.17: 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

2 Thessalonians 3.1: 3Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

2 Thessalonians 3.2: 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

2 Thessalonians 3.3: 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

2 Thessalonians 3.4: 4 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

2 Thessalonians 3.5: 5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3.6: 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

2 Thessalonians 3.7: 7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

2 Thessalonians 3.8: 8 neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

2 Thessalonians 3.9: 9 not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

2 Thessalonians 3.10: 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

2 Thessalonians 3.11: 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

2 Thessalonians 3.12: 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

2 Thessalonians 3.13: 13 But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

2 Thessalonians 3.14: 14 If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

2 Thessalonians 3.15: 15 Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

2 Thessalonians 3.16: 16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

2 Thessalonians 3.17: 17 The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.

2 Thessalonians 3.18: 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

1 Timothy 1.1: 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ1 our hope;

1 Timothy 1.2: 2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 1.3: 3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

1 Timothy 1.4: 4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

1 Timothy 1.5: 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

1 Timothy 1.6: 6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

1 Timothy 1.7: 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

1 Timothy 1.8: 8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

1 Timothy 1.9: 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

1 Timothy 1.10: 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

1 Timothy 1.11: 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

1 Timothy 1.12: 12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

1 Timothy 1.13: 13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1 Timothy 1.14: 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1.15: 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

1 Timothy 1.16: 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

1 Timothy 1.17: 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 1.18: 18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

1 Timothy 1.19: 19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

1 Timothy 1.20: 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

1 Timothy 2.1: 2I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

1 Timothy 2.2: 2 for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

1 Timothy 2.3: 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

1 Timothy 2.4: 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 2.5: 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1 Timothy 2.6: 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

1 Timothy 2.7: 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

1 Timothy 2.8: 8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

1 Timothy 2.9: 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just1 with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

1 Timothy 2.10: 10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

1 Timothy 2.12: 12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

1 Timothy 2.14: 14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

1 Timothy 2.15: 15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

1 Timothy 3.1: 3This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer1 desires a good work.

1 Timothy 3.2: 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

1 Timothy 3.3: 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

1 Timothy 3.4: 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

1 Timothy 3.5: 5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

1 Timothy 3.6: 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

1 Timothy 3.7: 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

1 Timothy 3.8: 8 Servants,2 in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

1 Timothy 3.10: 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve3 if they are blameless.

1 Timothy 3.11: 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3.12: 12 Let servants4 be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3.13: 13 For those who have served well5 gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 3.15: 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

1 Timothy 4.1: 4But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

1 Timothy 4.2: 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

1 Timothy 4.3: 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 4.4: 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

1 Timothy 4.6: 6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

1 Timothy 4.7: 7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

1 Timothy 4.8: 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

1 Timothy 4.10: 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

1 Timothy 4.12: 12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

1 Timothy 4.13: 13 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

1 Timothy 4.14: 14 Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

1 Timothy 4.15: 15 Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

1 Timothy 4.16: 16 Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

1 Timothy 5.1: 5Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

1 Timothy 5.2: 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

1 Timothy 5.4: 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is 1 acceptable in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 5.5: 5 Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

1 Timothy 5.8: 8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5.9: 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

1 Timothy 5.10: 10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

1 Timothy 5.11: 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

1 Timothy 5.12: 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

1 Timothy 5.13: 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

1 Timothy 5.14: 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

1 Timothy 5.16: 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5.17: 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

1 Timothy 5.18: 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.”a And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”b

1 Timothy 5.19: 19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

1 Timothy 5.20: 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

1 Timothy 5.21: 21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

1 Timothy 5.22: 22 Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

1 Timothy 5.23: 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

1 Timothy 5.24: 24 Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.

1 Timothy 5.25: 25 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

1 Timothy 6.1: 6Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

1 Timothy 6.2: 2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

1 Timothy 6.3: 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

1 Timothy 6.4: 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

1 Timothy 6.5: 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such. 1

1 Timothy 6.7: 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

1 Timothy 6.9: 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

1 Timothy 6.10: 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Timothy 6.11: 11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

1 Timothy 6.12: 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6.13: 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

1 Timothy 6.14: 14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Timothy 6.15: 15 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

1 Timothy 6.16: 16 He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

1 Timothy 6.17: 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

1 Timothy 6.18: 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

1 Timothy 6.19: 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

1 Timothy 6.20: 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

2 Timothy 1.1: 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

2 Timothy 1.2: 2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 1.3: 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

2 Timothy 1.4: 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

2 Timothy 1.5: 5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

2 Timothy 1.6: 6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

2 Timothy 1.7: 7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

2 Timothy 1.8: 8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

2 Timothy 1.9: 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

2 Timothy 1.10: 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

2 Timothy 1.11: 11 For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

2 Timothy 1.13: 13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1.14: 14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

2 Timothy 1.15: 15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 1.16: 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

2 Timothy 1.17: 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

2 Timothy 1.18: 18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

2 Timothy 2.1: 2You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2.2: 2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2.3: 3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2.4: 4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

2 Timothy 2.5: 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

2 Timothy 2.6: 6 The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

2 Timothy 2.7: 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

2 Timothy 2.8: 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring1 of David, according to my Good News,

2 Timothy 2.9: 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

2 Timothy 2.10: 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2 Timothy 2.14: 14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

2 Timothy 2.15: 15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

2 Timothy 2.16: 16 But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

2 Timothy 2.17: 17 and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:

2 Timothy 2.18: 18 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

2 Timothy 2.19: 19 However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,”a and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord2 depart from unrighteousness.”

2 Timothy 2.20: 20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

2 Timothy 2.21: 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

2 Timothy 2.22: 22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Timothy 2.23: 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

2 Timothy 2.24: 24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

2 Timothy 2.25: 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

2 Timothy 2.26: 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

2 Timothy 3.2: 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3.3: 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

2 Timothy 3.4: 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Timothy 3.5: 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

2 Timothy 3.6: 6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

2 Timothy 3.7: 7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3.8: 8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

2 Timothy 3.9: 9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

2 Timothy 3.10: 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

2 Timothy 3.11: 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

2 Timothy 3.12: 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 3.13: 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3.14: 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

2 Timothy 3.15: 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3.16: 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and1 profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3.17: 17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 4.1: 4I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

2 Timothy 4.2: 2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

2 Timothy 4.3: 3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

2 Timothy 4.4: 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

2 Timothy 4.5: 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

2 Timothy 4.6: 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

2 Timothy 4.7: 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

2 Timothy 4.8: 8 From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

2 Timothy 4.10: 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4.11: 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

2 Timothy 4.13: 13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.

2 Timothy 4.14: 14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

2 Timothy 4.15: 15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.

2 Timothy 4.16: 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

2 Timothy 4.17: 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

2 Timothy 4.18: 18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

2 Timothy 4.20: 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.

2 Timothy 4.21: 21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

2 Timothy 4.22: 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Titus 1.1: 1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Titus 1.2: 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Titus 1.3: 3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

Titus 1.4: 4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

Titus 1.5: 5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

Titus 1.6: 6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Titus 1.7: 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Titus 1.8: 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

Titus 1.9: 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Titus 1.10: 10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Titus 1.11: 11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Titus 1.12: 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

Titus 1.13: 13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Titus 1.14: 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Titus 1.15: 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Titus 1.16: 16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Titus 2.2: 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

Titus 2.3: 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Titus 2.4: 4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

Titus 2.5: 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Titus 2.7: 7 In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Titus 2.8: 8 and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

Titus 2.9: 9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

Titus 2.10: 10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

Titus 2.11: 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Titus 2.12: 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Titus 2.13: 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

Titus 2.14: 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Titus 2.15: 15 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Titus 3.1: 3Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Titus 3.2: 2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Titus 3.3: 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Titus 3.4: 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

Titus 3.5: 5 not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3.7: 7 that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3.8: 8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Titus 3.9: 9 but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Titus 3.11: 11 knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

Titus 3.12: 12 When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.

Titus 3.13: 13 Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

Titus 3.14: 14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Titus 3.15: 15 All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Philemon 1.1: 1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

Philemon 1.2: 2 to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

Philemon 1.3: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philemon 1.5: 5 hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

Philemon 1.6: 6 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Philemon 1.7: 7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Philemon 1.8: 8 Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

Philemon 1.9: 9 yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Philemon 1.10: 10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, 1

Philemon 1.11: 11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

Philemon 1.12: 12 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

Philemon 1.13: 13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

Philemon 1.14: 14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

Philemon 1.15: 15 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

Philemon 1.16: 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Philemon 1.17: 17 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Philemon 1.18: 18 But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account.

Philemon 1.19: 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

Philemon 1.20: 20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

Philemon 1.21: 21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

Philemon 1.22: 22 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

Hebrews 1.1: 1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Hebrews 1.2: 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Hebrews 1.3: 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Hebrews 1.4: 4 having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

Hebrews 1.6: 6 When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”c

therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”e

Hebrews 1.14: 14 Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Hebrews 2.1: 2Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Hebrews 2.2: 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

Hebrews 2.3: 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Hebrews 2.4: 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

Hebrews 2.5: 5 For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.

Hebrews 2.9: 9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Hebrews 2.10: 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Hebrews 2.11: 11 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,2

Hebrews 2.13: 13 Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”c

Hebrews 2.14: 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Hebrews 2.15: 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Hebrews 2.16: 16 For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring3 of Abraham.

Hebrews 2.17: 17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2.18: 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Hebrews 3.1: 3Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Hebrews 3.2: 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

Hebrews 3.3: 3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

Hebrews 3.4: 4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

Hebrews 3.5: 5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Hebrews 3.6: 6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 3.12: 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Hebrews 3.13: 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 3.14: 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Hebrews 3.16: 16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

Hebrews 3.17: 17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Hebrews 3.18: 18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

Hebrews 3.19: 19 We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4.1: 4Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

Hebrews 4.2: 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

Hebrews 4.3: 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;”a although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 4.4: 4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”b

Hebrews 4.5: 5 and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”c

Hebrews 4.6: 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

Hebrews 4.7: 7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said),

Hebrews 4.8: 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Hebrews 4.10: 10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Hebrews 4.11: 11 Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Hebrews 4.12: 12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4.13: 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Hebrews 4.14: 14 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

Hebrews 4.15: 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 4.16: 16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

Hebrews 5.1: 5For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 5.2: 2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

Hebrews 5.3: 3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

Hebrews 5.4: 4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

Hebrews 5.5: 5 So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him,

Hebrews 5.7: 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

Hebrews 5.8: 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Hebrews 5.9: 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Hebrews 5.11: 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

Hebrews 5.12: 12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Hebrews 5.13: 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Hebrews 5.14: 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Hebrews 6.1: 6Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Hebrews 6.2: 2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Hebrews 6.4: 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 6.5: 5 and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

Hebrews 6.6: 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

Hebrews 6.7: 7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

Hebrews 6.8: 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

Hebrews 6.9: 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

Hebrews 6.10: 10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Hebrews 6.11: 11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Hebrews 6.12: 12 that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Hebrews 6.13: 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

Hebrews 6.14: 14 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”a

Hebrews 6.16: 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

Hebrews 6.17: 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

Hebrews 6.18: 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Hebrews 6.19: 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Hebrews 6.20: 20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7.1: 7For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

Hebrews 7.2: 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

Hebrews 7.3: 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

Hebrews 7.4: 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

Hebrews 7.5: 5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

Hebrews 7.6: 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

Hebrews 7.8: 8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

Hebrews 7.9: 9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

Hebrews 7.10: 10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Hebrews 7.11: 11 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 7.12: 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

Hebrews 7.13: 13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

Hebrews 7.14: 14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

Hebrews 7.15: 15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

Hebrews 7.16: 16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

Hebrews 7.18: 18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

Hebrews 7.19: 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 7.20: 20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

Hebrews 7.21: 21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him,

Hebrews 7.22: 22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

Hebrews 7.23: 23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

Hebrews 7.24: 24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

Hebrews 7.25: 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7.26: 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Hebrews 7.27: 27 who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Hebrews 7.28: 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

Hebrews 8.1: 8Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Hebrews 8.2: 2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

Hebrews 8.3: 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

Hebrews 8.4: 4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

Hebrews 8.5: 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”a

Hebrews 8.6: 6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

Hebrews 8.7: 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

Hebrews 8.10: 10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.

Hebrews 8.13: 13 In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Hebrews 9.1: 9Now indeed even the first1 covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

Hebrews 9.2: 2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

Hebrews 9.3: 3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

Hebrews 9.4: 4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

Hebrews 9.5: 5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

Hebrews 9.6: 6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

Hebrews 9.7: 7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

Hebrews 9.8: 8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

Hebrews 9.9: 9 This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,

Hebrews 9.10: 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Hebrews 9.11: 11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

Hebrews 9.12: 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

Hebrews 9.13: 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,

Hebrews 9.14: 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9.15: 15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 9.16: 16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

Hebrews 9.17: 17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

Hebrews 9.18: 18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

Hebrews 9.19: 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Hebrews 9.20: 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”a

Hebrews 9.21: 21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

Hebrews 9.22: 22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Hebrews 9.23: 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 9.24: 24 For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Hebrews 9.25: 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

Hebrews 9.26: 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Hebrews 9.27: 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Hebrews 9.28: 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Hebrews 10.1: 10For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 10.2: 2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

Hebrews 10.4: 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Hebrews 10.6: 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

Hebrews 10.7: 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)

Hebrews 10.8: 8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

Hebrews 10.9: 9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

Hebrews 10.10: 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10.11: 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,

Hebrews 10.12: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

Hebrews 10.13: 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

Hebrews 10.14: 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Hebrews 10.17: 17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”c

Hebrews 10.18: 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Hebrews 10.19: 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10.20: 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

Hebrews 10.22: 22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Hebrews 10.23: 23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10.24: 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Hebrews 10.25: 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Hebrews 10.26: 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 10.27: 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

Hebrews 10.28: 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10.29: 29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 10.30: 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.”d Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”e

Hebrews 10.31: 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 10.32: 32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

Hebrews 10.33: 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Hebrews 10.34: 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Hebrews 10.35: 35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Hebrews 10.36: 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Hebrews 10.39: 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Hebrews 11.1: 11Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Hebrews 11.3: 3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Hebrews 11.4: 4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Hebrews 11.5: 5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

Hebrews 11.6: 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Hebrews 11.7: 7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear,1 prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Hebrews 11.8: 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

Hebrews 11.9: 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Hebrews 11.10: 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11.11: 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews 11.12: 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Hebrews 11.13: 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen2 them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 11.14: 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

Hebrews 11.15: 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

Hebrews 11.16: 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 11.17: 17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

Hebrews 11.18: 18 to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,” a

Hebrews 11.19: 19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

Hebrews 11.20: 20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

Hebrews 11.21: 21 By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

Hebrews 11.22: 22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

Hebrews 11.23: 23 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

Hebrews 11.24: 24 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

Hebrews 11.25: 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Hebrews 11.26: 26 considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Hebrews 11.27: 27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Hebrews 11.28: 28 By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

Hebrews 11.29: 29 By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

Hebrews 11.30: 30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

Hebrews 11.31: 31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

Hebrews 11.32: 32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

Hebrews 11.33: 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,b

Hebrews 11.34: 34 quenched the power of fire,c escaped the edge of the sword,d from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

Hebrews 11.35: 35 Women received their dead by resurrection.e Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Hebrews 11.36: 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Hebrews 11.37: 37 They were stoned.f They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.g They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

Hebrews 11.38: 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

Hebrews 11.39: 39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

Hebrews 11.40: 40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 12.1: 12Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12.2: 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12.3: 3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Hebrews 12.5: 5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,

Hebrews 12.7: 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Hebrews 12.8: 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

Hebrews 12.9: 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12.10: 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Hebrews 12.11: 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Hebrews 12.12: 12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, b

Hebrews 12.13: 13 and make straight paths for your feet,c so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Hebrews 12.14: 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Hebrews 12.15: 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Hebrews 12.16: 16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Hebrews 12.17: 17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Hebrews 12.18: 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

Hebrews 12.19: 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

Hebrews 12.20: 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.1 d

Hebrews 12.21: 21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”e

Hebrews 12.22: 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

Hebrews 12.23: 23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12.24: 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,f and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Hebrews 12.25: 25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Hebrews 12.26: 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”g

Hebrews 12.27: 27 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

Hebrews 12.28: 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Hebrews 13.2: 2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13.3: 3 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Hebrews 13.4: 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Hebrews 13.5: 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”a

Hebrews 13.7: 7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Hebrews 13.9: 9 Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Hebrews 13.10: 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

Hebrews 13.11: 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.c

Hebrews 13.12: 12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

Hebrews 13.13: 13 Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

Hebrews 13.14: 14 For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Hebrews 13.15: 15 Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God d continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Hebrews 13.16: 16 But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Hebrews 13.17: 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Hebrews 13.18: 18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Hebrews 13.19: 19 I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.

Hebrews 13.20: 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Hebrews 13.21: 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 13.22: 22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Hebrews 13.23: 23 Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

Hebrews 13.24: 24 Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

James 1.1: 1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

James 1.2: 2 Count it all joy, my brothers,1 when you fall into various temptations,

James 1.4: 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1.5: 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

James 1.6: 6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

James 1.7: 7 For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

James 1.9: 9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

James 1.10: 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

James 1.11: 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

James 1.12: 12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

James 1.13: 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

James 1.14: 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

James 1.15: 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

James 1.17: 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

James 1.18: 18 Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

James 1.19: 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

James 1.21: 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.2

James 1.22: 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

James 1.23: 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

James 1.24: 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

James 1.25: 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

James 1.26: 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

James 1.27: 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 2.1: 2My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

James 2.2: 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue,1 and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

James 2.3: 3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

James 2.4: 4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2.5: 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

James 2.6: 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

James 2.8: 8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”a you do well.

James 2.9: 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

James 2.10: 10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

James 2.11: 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,”b also said, “Do not commit murder.”c Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

James 2.12: 12 So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

James 2.13: 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2.14: 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

James 2.16: 16 and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

James 2.18: 18 Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

James 2.19: 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

James 2.20: 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

James 2.21: 21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

James 2.22: 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

James 2.23: 23 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,”d and he was called the friend of God.

James 2.24: 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

James 2.25: 25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

James 2.26: 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

James 3.1: 3Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

James 3.2: 2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

James 3.3: 3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

James 3.4: 4 Behold,1 the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

James 3.5: 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3.6: 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.2

James 3.7: 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

James 3.8: 8 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3.9: 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

James 3.10: 10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

James 3.11: 11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

James 3.12: 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

James 3.13: 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

James 3.14: 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

James 3.15: 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

James 3.16: 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

James 3.17: 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 3.18: 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

James 4.1: 4Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

James 4.2: 2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

James 4.3: 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

James 4.4: 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 4.5: 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

James 4.6: 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”a

James 4.7: 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4.8: 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4.9: 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

James 4.10: 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 4.11: 11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James 4.12: 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

James 4.13: 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

James 4.14: 14 Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

James 4.15: 15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

James 4.17: 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

James 5.1: 5Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

James 5.3: 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

James 5.4: 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.1

James 5.5: 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

James 5.6: 6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

James 5.7: 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

James 5.8: 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

James 5.9: 9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

James 5.10: 10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

James 5.11: 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

James 5.12: 12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.2

James 5.13: 13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

James 5.14: 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

James 5.15: 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

James 5.16: 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

James 5.17: 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

James 5.18: 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

James 5.19: 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

James 5.20: 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 1.1: 1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1.2: 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Peter 1.3: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1.4: 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

1 Peter 1.5: 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Peter 1.6: 6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

1 Peter 1.7: 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

1 Peter 1.8: 8 whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

1 Peter 1.10: 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

1 Peter 1.11: 11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

1 Peter 1.12: 12 To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

1 Peter 1.13: 13 Therefore prepare your minds for action.1 Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

1 Peter 1.14: 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

1 Peter 1.15: 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

1 Peter 1.16: 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”a

1 Peter 1.17: 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

1 Peter 1.18: 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

1 Peter 1.19: 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

1 Peter 1.20: 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

1 Peter 1.21: 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 1.22: 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

1 Peter 1.23: 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

1 Peter 2.1: 2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

1 Peter 2.2: 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

1 Peter 2.4: 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

1 Peter 2.5: 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2.7: 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,

For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

1 Peter 2.9: 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2.10: 10 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

1 Peter 2.11: 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 2.12: 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2.13: 13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

1 Peter 2.14: 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

1 Peter 2.15: 15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1 Peter 2.16: 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

1 Peter 2.18: 18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

1 Peter 2.19: 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

1 Peter 2.20: 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

1 Peter 2.21: 21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you2 an example, that you should follow his steps,

1 Peter 2.22: 22 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”d

1 Peter 2.23: 23 When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

1 Peter 2.24: 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.3

1 Peter 2.25: 25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer4 of your souls.

1 Peter 3.1: 3In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

1 Peter 3.3: 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

1 Peter 3.4: 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

1 Peter 3.5: 5 For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

1 Peter 3.6: 6 So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

1 Peter 3.7: 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 3.8: 8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

1 Peter 3.9: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 3.13: 13 Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

1 Peter 3.14: 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”b

1 Peter 3.15: 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

1 Peter 3.16: 16 having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

1 Peter 3.17: 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

1 Peter 3.18: 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

1 Peter 3.20: 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

1 Peter 3.21: 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 3.22: 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

1 Peter 4.1: 4Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

1 Peter 4.2: 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

1 Peter 4.3: 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

1 Peter 4.4: 4 They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

1 Peter 4.5: 5 They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

1 Peter 4.6: 6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

1 Peter 4.7: 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

1 Peter 4.8: 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4.10: 10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

1 Peter 4.11: 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4.12: 12 Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

1 Peter 4.13: 13 But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

1 Peter 4.14: 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

1 Peter 4.15: 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

1 Peter 4.16: 16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

1 Peter 4.17: 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

1 Peter 4.18: 18 “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”a

1 Peter 4.19: 19 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

1 Peter 5.1: 5Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

1 Peter 5.2: 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

1 Peter 5.3: 3 not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

1 Peter 5.4: 4 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

1 Peter 5.5: 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”a

1 Peter 5.6: 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

1 Peter 5.8: 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

1 Peter 5.9: 9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

1 Peter 5.10: 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

1 Peter 5.12: 12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

1 Peter 5.13: 13 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.

2 Peter 1.1: 1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2 Peter 1.2: 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

2 Peter 1.3: 3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

2 Peter 1.4: 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

2 Peter 1.5: 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

2 Peter 1.6: 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

2 Peter 1.7: 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

2 Peter 1.8: 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1.9: 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

2 Peter 1.10: 10 Therefore, brothers,1 be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1.11: 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1.12: 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

2 Peter 1.13: 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

2 Peter 1.14: 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

2 Peter 1.15: 15 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

2 Peter 1.16: 16 For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

2 Peter 1.17: 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”a

2 Peter 1.18: 18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

2 Peter 1.19: 19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

2 Peter 1.20: 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

2 Peter 1.21: 21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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.”

2 Peter 3.1: 3This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

2 Peter 3.2: 2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

2 Peter 3.3: 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

2 Peter 3.4: 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

2 Peter 3.5: 5 For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

2 Peter 3.6: 6 by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.

2 Peter 3.7: 7 But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

2 Peter 3.8: 8 But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3.9: 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3.10: 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

2 Peter 3.11: 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

2 Peter 3.12: 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

2 Peter 3.13: 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

2 Peter 3.14: 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

2 Peter 3.15: 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

2 Peter 3.16: 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

2 Peter 3.17: 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

2 Peter 3.18: 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

1 John 1.1: 1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

1 John 1.2: 2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

1 John 1.3: 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1.5: 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 1.6: 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

1 John 1.7: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1.8: 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1.9: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1.10: 10 If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 2.1: 2My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor1 with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

1 John 2.2: 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice2 for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

1 John 2.3: 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2.4: 4 One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

1 John 2.5: 5 But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

1 John 2.6: 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

1 John 2.7: 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

1 John 2.8: 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

1 John 2.9: 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

1 John 2.10: 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

1 John 2.11: 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2.12: 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

1 John 2.13: 13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.

1 John 2.14: 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.

I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

1 John 2.15: 15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

1 John 2.16: 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

1 John 2.17: 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

1 John 2.18: 18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

1 John 2.19: 19 They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

1 John 2.20: 20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. 3

1 John 2.21: 21 I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2.22: 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 2.23: 23 Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

1 John 2.24: 24 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

1 John 2.26: 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

1 John 2.27: 27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

1 John 2.28: 28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

1 John 2.29: 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

1 John 3.1: 3See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

1 John 3.2: 2 Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

1 John 3.3: 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

1 John 3.5: 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

1 John 3.6: 6 Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

1 John 3.7: 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

1 John 3.8: 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3.9: 9 Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3.10: 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

1 John 3.11: 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

1 John 3.12: 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

1 John 3.14: 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

1 John 3.15: 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

1 John 3.16: 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

1 John 3.17: 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

1 John 3.18: 18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

1 John 3.19: 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

1 John 3.20: 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

1 John 3.21: 21 Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

1 John 3.22: 22 so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 3.23: 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

1 John 3.24: 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

1 John 4.1: 4Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4.2: 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

1 John 4.3: 3 and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

1 John 4.4: 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 4.5: 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 4.6: 6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4.7: 7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

1 John 4.9: 9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1 John 4.10: 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice1 for our sins.

1 John 4.11: 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4.12: 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

1 John 4.13: 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 4.14: 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

1 John 4.15: 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

1 John 4.16: 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

1 John 4.17: 17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

1 John 4.18: 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4.20: 20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4.21: 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

1 John 5.1: 5Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

1 John 5.2: 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

1 John 5.3: 3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

1 John 5.4: 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

1 John 5.5: 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5.6: 6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1 John 5.9: 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

1 John 5.10: 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

1 John 5.11: 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5.12: 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

1 John 5.13: 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

1 John 5.14: 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

1 John 5.15: 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

1 John 5.16: 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

1 John 5.17: 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

1 John 5.18: 18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

1 John 5.19: 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 5.20: 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

2 John 1.1: 1The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

2 John 1.2: 2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

2 John 1.3: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

2 John 1.4: 4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

2 John 1.5: 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

2 John 1.6: 6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

2 John 1.7: 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

2 John 1.8: 8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

2 John 1.9: 9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

2 John 1.10: 10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

2 John 1.12: 12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

3 John 1.2: 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

3 John 1.3: 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

3 John 1.4: 4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

3 John 1.5: 5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

3 John 1.6: 6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

3 John 1.7: 7 because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

3 John 1.8: 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

3 John 1.9: 9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

3 John 1.10: 10 Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

3 John 1.11: 11 Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

3 John 1.12: 12 Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

3 John 1.13: 13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

3 John 1.14: 14 but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.

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 1.3: 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 1.23: 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.

Revelation 1.1: 1This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel1 to his servant, John,

Revelation 1.2: 2 who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

Revelation 1.3: 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

Revelation 1.4: 4 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

Revelation 1.5: 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Revelation 1.6: 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priestsa to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1.7: 7 Behold,2 he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Revelation 1.8: 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,3” says the Lord God,4 “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1.9: 9 I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 1.10: 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

Revelation 1.11: 11 saying, 5“What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies:6 to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Revelation 1.12: 12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.

Revelation 1.13: 13 And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man,b clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

Revelation 1.14: 14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

Revelation 1.15: 15 His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

Revelation 1.16: 16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

Revelation 1.18: 18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.7

Revelation 1.19: 19 Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter.

Revelation 1.20: 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels8 of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.

“He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

Revelation 2.2: 2 “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Revelation 2.3: 3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have 1 not grown weary.

Revelation 2.5: 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Revelation 2.6: 6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Revelation 2.7: 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

“The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

Revelation 2.9: 9 “I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 2.10: 10 Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 2.11: 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

Revelation 2.13: 13 “I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Revelation 2.14: 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2.15: 15 So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.2

Revelation 2.16: 16 Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Revelation 2.17: 17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, 3 and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

“The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

Revelation 2.19: 19 “I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Revelation 2.20: 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your4 woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 2.21: 21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 2.22: 22 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

Revelation 2.23: 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Revelation 2.24: 24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

Revelation 2.26: 26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Revelation 2.27: 27 He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots;a as I also have received of my Father:

Revelation 2.29: 29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

“I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Revelation 3.2: 2 Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Revelation 3.3: 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Revelation 3.4: 4 Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Revelation 3.5: 5 He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 3.6: 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

“He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Revelation 3.8: 8 “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Revelation 3.9: 9 Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Revelation 3.10: 10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Revelation 3.11: 11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Revelation 3.12: 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Revelation 3.13: 13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

“The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning1 of God’s creation, says these things:

Revelation 3.15: 15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Revelation 3.16: 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

Revelation 3.17: 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Revelation 3.18: 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

Revelation 3.19: 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Revelation 3.20: 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Revelation 3.21: 21 He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 3.22: 22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”

Revelation 4.1: 4After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

Revelation 4.2: 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

Revelation 4.3: 3 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

Revelation 4.4: 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

Revelation 4.5: 5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Revelation 4.6: 6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

Revelation 4.7: 7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

Revelation 4.8: 8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy1 is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

Revelation 4.9: 9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 4.10: 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

Revelation 4.11: 11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,2 to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Revelation 5.1: 5I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

Revelation 5.2: 2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”

Revelation 5.3: 3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.

Revelation 5.4: 4 Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.

Revelation 5.5: 5 One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

Revelation 5.6: 6 I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Revelation 5.7: 7 Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

Revelation 5.8: 8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Revelation 5.11: 11 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

Revelation 5.12: 12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

Revelation 5.13: 13 I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”1

Revelation 5.14: 14 The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the2 elders fell down and worshiped.3

Revelation 6.1: 6I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”

Revelation 6.2: 2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

Revelation 6.3: 3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”

Revelation 6.4: 4 Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

Revelation 6.5: 5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

Revelation 6.6: 6 I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A choenix 1 of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”

Revelation 6.7: 7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see!”

Revelation 6.8: 8 And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades 2 followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

Revelation 6.9: 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

Revelation 6.10: 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Revelation 6.11: 11 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, 3 who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

Revelation 6.12: 12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

Revelation 6.13: 13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

Revelation 6.14: 14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

Revelation 6.15: 15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

Revelation 6.16: 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 6.17: 17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

Revelation 7.1: 7After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

Revelation 7.2: 2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

Revelation 7.3: 3 saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

Revelation 7.4: 4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

Revelation 7.9: 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Revelation 7.10: 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

Revelation 7.11: 11 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,

Revelation 7.12: 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

Revelation 7.13: 13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.1They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Revelation 7.15: 15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

Revelation 7.16: 16 They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;

Revelation 7.17: 17 for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Revelation 8.1: 8When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Revelation 8.2: 2 I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Revelation 8.3: 3 Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

Revelation 8.4: 4 The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.

Revelation 8.5: 5 The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, then threw it on the earth. Thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake followed.

Revelation 8.6: 6 The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Revelation 8.7: 7 The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, 1 and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Revelation 8.8: 8 The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood,

Revelation 8.9: 9 and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

Revelation 8.10: 10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.

Revelation 8.11: 11 The name of the star is called “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Revelation 8.12: 12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

Revelation 8.13: 13 I saw, and I heard an eagle,2 flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”

Revelation 9.1: 9The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

Revelation 9.2: 2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a1 burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

Revelation 9.3: 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9.4: 4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

Revelation 9.5: 5 They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.

Revelation 9.6: 6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

Revelation 9.7: 7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.

Revelation 9.8: 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

Revelation 9.9: 9 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

Revelation 9.10: 10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

Revelation 9.11: 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”,2 but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”. 3

Revelation 9.12: 12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

Revelation 9.13: 13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Revelation 9.14: 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”

Revelation 9.15: 15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

Revelation 9.16: 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million.4 I heard the number of them.

Revelation 9.17: 17 Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.

Revelation 9.18: 18 By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

Revelation 9.19: 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

Revelation 9.20: 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.

Revelation 9.21: 21 They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries,5 their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

Revelation 10.1: 10I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

Revelation 10.2: 2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.

Revelation 10.3: 3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

Revelation 10.4: 4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”

Revelation 10.5: 5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

Revelation 10.6: 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

Revelation 10.7: 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

Revelation 10.8: 8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”

He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Revelation 10.10: 10 I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

Revelation 10.11: 11 They1 told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

Revelation 11.1: 11A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

Revelation 11.2: 2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

Revelation 11.3: 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Revelation 11.4: 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.

Revelation 11.5: 5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

Revelation 11.6: 6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

Revelation 11.7: 7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

Revelation 11.8: 8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Revelation 11.9: 9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Revelation 11.10: 10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Revelation 11.11: 11 After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

Revelation 11.12: 12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

Revelation 11.13: 13 In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 11.14: 14 The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.

Revelation 11.15: 15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

Revelation 11.16: 16 The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

Revelation 11.17: 17 saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was;1 because you have taken your great power and reigned.

Revelation 11.18: 18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Revelation 11.19: 19 God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

Revelation 12.1: 12A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Revelation 12.2: 2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

Revelation 12.3: 3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

Revelation 12.4: 4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

Revelation 12.5: 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

Revelation 12.6: 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12.7: 7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.

Revelation 12.8: 8 They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.

Revelation 12.9: 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 12.10: 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Revelation 12.11: 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Revelation 12.12: 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

Revelation 12.13: 13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

Revelation 12.14: 14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 12.15: 15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

Revelation 12.16: 16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.

Revelation 12.17: 17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring,1 who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Revelation 13.1: 13Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

Revelation 13.2: 2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

Revelation 13.3: 3 One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.

Revelation 13.4: 4 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

Revelation 13.5: 5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

Revelation 13.6: 6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.

Revelation 13.7: 7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

Revelation 13.8: 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Revelation 13.10: 10 If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed.1 Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Revelation 13.11: 11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 13.12: 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

Revelation 13.13: 13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.

Revelation 13.14: 14 He deceives my own2 people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

Revelation 13.15: 15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Revelation 13.16: 16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;

Revelation 13.17: 17 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Revelation 13.18: 18 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.

Revelation 14.1: 14I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

Revelation 14.2: 2 I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

Revelation 14.3: 3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

Revelation 14.4: 4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Revelation 14.6: 6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

Revelation 14.7: 7 He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

Revelation 14.8: 8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”

Revelation 14.9: 9 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,

Revelation 14.10: 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

Revelation 14.11: 11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

Revelation 14.12: 12 Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Revelation 14.13: 13 I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Revelation 14.14: 14 I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man,a having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

Revelation 14.15: 15 Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Send your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!”

Revelation 14.16: 16 He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

Revelation 14.17: 17 Another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.

Revelation 14.18: 18 Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!”

Revelation 14.19: 19 The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

Revelation 14.20: 20 The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.2

Revelation 15.1: 15I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.

Revelation 15.2: 2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image,1 and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Revelation 15.3: 3 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

Revelation 15.5: 5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

Revelation 15.6: 6 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.

Revelation 15.7: 7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

Revelation 15.8: 8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.

Revelation 16.1: 16I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”

Revelation 16.2: 2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

Revelation 16.3: 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

Revelation 16.4: 4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

Revelation 16.5: 5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things.

Revelation 16.6: 6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

Revelation 16.7: 7 I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

Revelation 16.8: 8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

Revelation 16.9: 9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

Revelation 16.10: 10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

Revelation 16.11: 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

Revelation 16.12: 12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

Revelation 16.13: 13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

Revelation 16.14: 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

Revelation 16.15: 15 “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

Revelation 16.16: 16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, “Megiddo”.

Revelation 16.17: 17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

Revelation 16.18: 18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not happened since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty.

Revelation 16.19: 19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Revelation 16.21: 21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent,1 came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

Revelation 17.1: 17One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

Revelation 17.2: 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

Revelation 17.3: 3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17.4: 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

Revelation 17.5: 5 And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Revelation 17.6: 6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

Revelation 17.7: 7 The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

Revelation 17.8: 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.1

Revelation 17.9: 9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

Revelation 17.10: 10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

Revelation 17.11: 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.

Revelation 17.12: 12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

Revelation 17.13: 13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

Revelation 17.14: 14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

Revelation 17.15: 15 He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

Revelation 17.16: 16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

Revelation 17.17: 17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

Revelation 17.18: 18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 18.1: 18After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

Revelation 18.2: 2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

Revelation 18.3: 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

Revelation 18.4: 4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Revelation 18.5: 5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Revelation 18.6: 6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

Revelation 18.7: 7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

Revelation 18.8: 8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

Revelation 18.9: 9 The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 18.10: 10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’

Revelation 18.11: 11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more:

Revelation 18.12: 12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

Revelation 18.13: 13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.

Revelation 18.14: 14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

Revelation 18.15: 15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

Revelation 18.16: 16 saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

Revelation 18.17: 17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

Revelation 18.18: 18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’

Revelation 18.19: 19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.

Revelation 18.20: 20 “Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

Revelation 18.21: 21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

Revelation 18.22: 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

Revelation 18.23: 23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

Revelation 18.24: 24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

Revelation 19.1: 19After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

Revelation 19.2: 2 for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

Revelation 19.3: 3 A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”

Revelation 19.4: 4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”

Revelation 19.5: 5 A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

Revelation 19.6: 6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

Revelation 19.7: 7 Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

Revelation 19.8: 8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Revelation 19.9: 9 He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

Revelation 19.10: 10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

Revelation 19.11: 11 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

Revelation 19.12: 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.

Revelation 19.13: 13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”

Revelation 19.14: 14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.

Revelation 19.15: 15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod.a He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Revelation 19.16: 16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Revelation 19.17: 17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,1

Revelation 19.18: 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”

Revelation 19.19: 19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.

Revelation 19.20: 20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 19.21: 21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

Revelation 20.1: 20I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20.2: 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

Revelation 20.3: 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

Revelation 20.4: 4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 20.5: 5 The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20.6: 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

Revelation 20.7: 7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,

Revelation 20.8: 8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Revelation 20.9: 9 They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

Revelation 20.10: 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20.11: 11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

Revelation 20.12: 12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 20.13: 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades1 gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

Revelation 20.14: 14 Death and Hades2 were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Revelation 20.15: 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21.1: 21I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

Revelation 21.2: 2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21.3: 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Revelation 21.4: 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Revelation 21.5: 5 He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

Revelation 21.6: 6 He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.1 I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

Revelation 21.7: 7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Revelation 21.8: 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,2 idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 21.9: 9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

Revelation 21.10: 10 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

Revelation 21.11: 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Revelation 21.12: 12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

Revelation 21.13: 13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

Revelation 21.14: 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

Revelation 21.15: 15 He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

Revelation 21.16: 16 The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia.3 Its length, width, and height are equal.

Revelation 21.17: 17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits,4 by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

Revelation 21.18: 18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

Revelation 21.19: 19 The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire;5 the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

Revelation 21.20: 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

Revelation 21.21: 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

Revelation 21.22: 22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

Revelation 21.23: 23 The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 21.24: 24 The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

Revelation 21.25: 25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Revelation 21.26: 26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.

Revelation 21.27: 27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 22.1: 22He showed me a1 river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Revelation 22.2: 2 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22.3: 3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

Revelation 22.4: 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Revelation 22.5: 5 There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

Revelation 22.6: 6 He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

Revelation 22.7: 7 “Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

Revelation 22.8: 8 Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.

Revelation 22.9: 9 He said to me, “See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

Revelation 22.10: 10 He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

Revelation 22.11: 11 He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Revelation 22.12: 12 “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Revelation 22.13: 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Revelation 22.14: 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments,2 that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Revelation 22.15: 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 22.16: 16 I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Revelation 22.17: 17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Revelation 22.18: 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

Revelation 22.19: 19 If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree3 of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

Revelation 22.20: 20 He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.”

Revelation 22.21: 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

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The World English Bible main edition translates God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament as “Yahweh.” The Messianic Edition and the British Edition of the World English Bible translates the same name as “LORD” (all capital letters), or when used with “Lord” (mixed case, translated from “Adonai”,) GOD. There are solid translational arguments for both traditions.

Because World English Bible uses the Majority Text as the basis for the New Testament, you may notice the following differences in comparing the WEB to other translations:

Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the Greek Manuscripts (and are relegated to footnotes in the WEB) may be included in some other translations.

1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition in some translations, including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament, even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit inspired through John.

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The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations. The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, depending on which book and who you ask, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.

The following books and parts of books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox Churches: Tobit, Judith, Esther from the Greek Septuagint, The Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (also called The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach), Baruch, The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees. In this edition, The Letter of Jeremiah is included as chapter 6 of Baruch. Three of those books come from parts of Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint, but not the Hebrew Old Testament: The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. These 11 books, plus the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments comprise the 88 books in the Roman Catholic Bible.

The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church: 1 Esdras, The Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees. Note that 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh are also in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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An appendix to the Greek Septuagint contains 4 Maccabees. It is included for its historical value.

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Tobit is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Tobit 1.1: 1The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;

Tobit 1.2: 2 who in the days of Enemessar1 king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.

Tobit 1.3: 3 I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.

Tobit 1.4: 4 When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages.

Tobit 1.5: 5 All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father.

Tobit 1.6: 6 I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron.

Tobit 1.7: 7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.

Tobit 1.8: 8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

Tobit 1.9: 9 When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.

Tobit 1.10: 10 When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles;

Tobit 1.13: 13 So the Most High gave me grace and favor2 in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent.

Tobit 1.14: 14 And I went into Media, and left ten talents of silver in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages of Media.

Tobit 1.15: 15 And when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his place. In his time, the highways were troubled,3 and I could no longer go into Media.

Tobit 1.16: 16 In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry,

Tobit 1.17: 17 and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on4 the wall of Ninevah, I buried him.

Tobit 1.18: 18 If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found.

Tobit 1.19: 19 But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.

Tobit 1.20: 20 And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias.

Tobit 1.21: 21 No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus5 his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs.

Tobit 1.22: 22 Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son.

Tobit 2.1: 2Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat.

Tobit 2.2: 2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”

Tobit 2.3: 3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”

Tobit 2.4: 4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.

Tobit 2.7: 7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.

Tobit 2.8: 8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”

Tobit 2.9: 9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.

Tobit 2.10: 10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went1 into Elymais.

Tobit 2.12: 12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.

Tobit 2.13: 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.

Tobit 2.14: 14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”

I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.

But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.2”

Tobit 3.2: 2 “O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever.

Tobit 3.3: 3 Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you.

Tobit 3.4: 4 For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

Tobit 3.5: 5 Now your judgments are many and true; that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers; because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you.

Tobit 3.6: 6 Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”

Tobit 3.7: 7 The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants;

Tobit 3.8: 8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit1 killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.

Tobit 3.9: 9 Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you.”

Tobit 3.10: 10 When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, “I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave.2”

Tobit 3.11: 11 Then she prayed by the window, and said, “Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honorable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever!

Tobit 3.13: 13 Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach.

Tobit 3.15: 15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father, in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”

Tobit 3.17: 17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit3; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

Tobit 4.1: 4In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media,

Tobit 4.2: 2 and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die?

“My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honor her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her.

Tobit 4.4: 4 Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.

Tobit 4.5: 5 My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness.

Tobit 4.6: 6 For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness.

Tobit 4.7: 7 Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.

Tobit 4.8: 8 As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little;

Tobit 4.9: 9 for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity;

Tobit 4.10: 10 because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness.

Tobit 4.11: 11 Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it.

Tobit 4.12: 12 Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land.

Tobit 4.13: 13 And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine.

Tobit 4.14: 14 Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behavior.

Tobit 4.15: 15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.

Tobit 4.16: 16 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.

Tobit 4.17: 17 Pour out your bread on the burial1 of the just, and give nothing to sinners.

Tobit 4.18: 18 Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable.

Tobit 4.19: 19 Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind.

Tobit 4.20: 20 And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media.

Tobit 4.21: 21 And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.”

Tobit 5.1: 5Then Tobias answered and said to him, “Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me.

Tobit 5.3: 3 He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, “Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money.”

Tobit 5.5: 5 and he didn’t know it. He said to him, “Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?”

Tobit 5.6: 6 The angel said to him, “I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael.”

Tobit 5.8: 8 He said to him, “Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, “Behold, I have found someone who will go with me.”

But he said, “Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you.”

Tobit 5.10: 10 And Tobit said to him, “Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me.”

Tobit 5.11: 11 He said to him, “Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?”

And Tobit said to him, “I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name.”

Tobit 5.12: 12 And he said, “I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred.”

Tobit 5.13: 13 And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.

Tobit 5.14: 14 But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son?

Tobit 5.15: 15 And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages.”

Tobit 5.16: 16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you.”

Tobit 5.17: 17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?

Tobit 5.18: 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child.

Tobit 5.20: 20 Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.

Tobit 5.21: 21 For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound.”

Tobit 6.1: 6Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.

Tobit 6.2: 2 But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leaped out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man.

Tobit 6.4: 4 And the angel said to him, “Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you.”

Tobit 6.5: 5 And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana.

Tobit 6.6: 6 The young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?”

Tobit 6.7: 7 He said to him, “About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee.

Tobit 6.8: 8 But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed.”

Tobit 6.10: 10 the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife.

Tobit 6.11: 11 For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred.

Tobit 6.12: 12 The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other.”

Tobit 6.13: 13 Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber.

Tobit 6.14: 14 Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”

Tobit 6.15: 15 But the angel said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife.

Tobit 6.16: 16 And when1 you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them.

Tobit 6.17: 17 The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her.”

When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.

Tobit 7.1: 7They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house.

Tobit 7.2: 2 Raguel said to Edna his wife, “This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!”

They said to him, “We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh.”

Tobit 7.5: 5 They said, “He is both alive, and in good health.” Tobias said, “He is my father.”

Tobit 7.7: 7 blessed him, and said to him, “You are the son of an honest and good man.” When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept;

Tobit 7.8: 8 and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat.

But Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished.”

Tobit 7.9: 9 So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, “Eat, drink, and make merry:

Tobit 7.10: 10 for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth.

Tobit 7.11: 11 I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.”

And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”

Tobit 7.12: 12 Raguel said, “Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you.”

Tobit 7.13: 13 And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them.

Tobit 7.14: 14 He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it.

Tobit 7.16: 16 And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, “Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there.”

Tobit 7.17: 17 She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her,

Tobit 7.18: 18 “Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favor1 for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter.”

Tobit 8.2: 2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them.

Tobit 8.3: 3 When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.

Tobit 8.4: 4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, “Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.”

Tobit 8.5: 5 And Tobias began to say, “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures.

Tobit 8.6: 6 You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him.

Tobit 8.7: 7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”

Tobit 8.12: 12 and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”

Tobit 8.13: 13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,

Tobit 8.15: 15 Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!

Tobit 8.16: 16 Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.

Tobit 8.17: 17 Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.

Tobit 8.20: 20 Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;

Tobit 8.21: 21 and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.

Tobit 9.2: 2 “Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast,

Tobit 9.4: 4 My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved.

Tobit 9.5: 5 So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.

Tobit 9.6: 6 Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife.

Tobit 10.1: 10Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,

Tobit 10.2: 2 he said, “Is he perchance detained?1 Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”

Tobit 10.4: 4 But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,

Tobit 10.5: 5 “I care about nothing,2 my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”

Tobit 10.6: 6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”

Tobit 10.7: 7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there.

Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”

Tobit 10.8: 8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”

Tobit 10.10: 10 Raguel arose, and gave him Sarah his wife, and half his goods, servants and cattle and money;

Tobit 10.11: 11 and he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”

Tobit 10.12: 12 And he said to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her.

Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.

Tobit 11.1: 11After these things Tobias also went his way, blessing God because he had prospered his journey; and he blessed Raguel and Edna his wife. Then he went on his way until they drew near to Nineveh.

Tobit 11.2: 2 Raphael said to Tobias, “Don’t you know, brother, how you left your father?

Tobit 11.4: 4 But take in your hand the bile of the fish.” So they went their way, and the dog went after them.

Tobit 11.6: 6 She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!”

Tobit 11.7: 7 Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.

Tobit 11.8: 8 Therefore anoint his eyes with the bile, and being pricked with it, he will rub, and will make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.”

Tobit 11.9: 9 Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.

Tobit 11.10: 10 Tobit went toward the door and stumbled; but his son ran to him,

Tobit 11.11: 11 and took hold of his father. He rubbed the bile on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.”

Tobit 11.13: 13 Then the white films peeled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.

Tobit 11.14: 14 He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!

Tobit 11.15: 15 For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.

Tobit 11.16: 16 Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marveled, because he had received his sight.

Tobit 11.17: 17 Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy among all his kindred who were at Nineveh.

Tobit 11.19: 19 Tobias’ wedding feast was kept seven days with great gladness.

Tobit 12.1: 12And Tobit called his son Tobias, and said to him, “See, my child, that the man which went with you have his wages, and you must give him more.”

Tobit 12.2: 2 And he said to him, “Father, it is no harm to me to give him the half of those things which I have brought;

Tobit 12.3: 3 for he has led me for you in safety, and he cured my wife, and brought my money, and likewise cured you.”

Tobit 12.5: 5 And he called the angel, and said to him, “Take half of all that you all have brought.”

Tobit 12.6: 6 Then he called them both privately, and said to them, “Bless God, and give him thanks, and magnify him, and give him thanks in the sight of all that live, for the things which he has done with you. It is good to bless God and exalt his name, showing forth with honor the works of God. Don’t be slack to give him thanks.

Tobit 12.7: 7 It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you.

Tobit 12.8: 8 Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.

Tobit 12.9: 9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;

Tobit 12.11: 11 Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’

Tobit 12.12: 12 And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise.

Tobit 12.13: 13 And when you didn’t delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you.

Tobit 12.15: 15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”

Tobit 12.16: 16 And they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces; for they were afraid.

Tobit 12.17: 17 And he said to them, “Don’t be afraid. You will all have peace; but bless God forever.

Tobit 12.18: 18 For I came not of any favor of my own, but by the will of your God. Therefore bless him forever.

Tobit 12.19: 19 All these days I appeared to you. I didn’t eat or drink, but you all saw a vision.

Tobit 12.20: 20 Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”

Tobit 12.22: 22 They confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.

Tobit 13.3: 3 Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel!

Tobit 13.6: 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,

Tobit 13.16: 16 For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires, emeralds, and precious stones;

Tobit 13.17: 17 The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl, carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.

Tobit 14.2: 2 He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.

Tobit 14.3: 3 Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.

Tobit 14.4: 4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be overthrown, but in Media there will rather be peace for a season. Our kindred will be scattered in the earth from the good land. Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burned up, and will be desolate for a time.

Tobit 14.5: 5 God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land, and they will build the house, but not like to the former house, until the times of that age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return from the places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem with honor. The house of God will be built in it forever with a glorious building, even as the prophets spoke concerning it.

Tobit 14.6: 6 And all the nations will turn to fear the Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.

Tobit 14.7: 7 All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.

Tobit 14.8: 8 And now, my child, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely come to pass.

Tobit 14.9: 9 But you must keep the law and the ordinances, and show yourself merciful and righteous, that it may be well with you.

Tobit 14.10: 10 Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus that nourished him, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and all the recompense that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his recompense, and he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snare of death which he set for him; but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.

Tobit 14.11: 11 And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”

While he was saying these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was one hundred fifty eight years old. Tobias buried him magnificently.

Tobit 14.12: 12 When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,

Tobit 14.13: 13 and he grew old in honor, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s.

Tobit 14.14: 14 He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred twenty seven years old.

Tobit 14.15: 15 Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.

Judith is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Judith 1.1: 1In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,

Judith 1.2: 2 and built around Ecbatana walls of hewn stones three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits;

Judith 1.3: 3 and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits;

Judith 1.4: 4 and made its gates, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and their breadth forty cubits, for his mighty army to go out of, and the setting in array of his footmen—

Judith 1.5: 5 even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau.

Judith 1.6: 6 There came to meet him all that lived in the hill country, and all that lived by Euphrates, Tigris, and Hydaspes, and in the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymaeans. Many nations of the sons of Chelod assembled themselves to the battle.

Judith 1.7: 7 And Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia, and to all who lived westward, to those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all who lived along the sea coast,

Judith 1.8: 8 and to those among the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,

Judith 1.9: 9 and to all who were in Samaria and its cities, and beyond Jordan to Jerusalem, Betane, Chellus, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses, and all the land of Goshen,

Judith 1.10: 10 until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia.

Judith 1.11: 11 All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace.

Judith 1.12: 12 And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas.

Judith 1.13: 13 And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots.

Judith 1.14: 14 He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame.

Judith 1.15: 15 He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day.

Judith 1.16: 16 He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred twenty days.

Judith 2.1: 2In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke.

Judith 2.2: 2 He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth.

Judith 2.3: 3 They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth.

Judith 2.4: 4 It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him,

Judith 2.5: 5 “The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders.

Judith 2.6: 6 And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth.

Judith 2.7: 7 You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them.

Judith 2.8: 8 Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows.

Judith 2.10: 10 But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you,1 then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof.

Judith 2.11: 11 As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land.

Judith 2.12: 12 For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand.

Judith 2.13: 13 Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.”

Judith 2.14: 14 So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur.

Judith 2.15: 15 He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback.

Judith 2.17: 17 He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision,

Judith 2.18: 18 and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house.

Judith 2.19: 19 He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen.

Judith 2.20: 20 A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.

Judith 2.21: 21 And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.

Judith 2.22: 22 And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country,

Judith 2.23: 23 and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians.

Judith 2.24: 24 And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.

Judith 2.25: 25 And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were toward the south, opposite Arabia.

Judith 2.26: 26 He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds.

Judith 2.27: 27 He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword.

Judith 2.28: 28 And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.

Judith 3.2: 2 “Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.

Judith 3.3: 3 Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.

Judith 3.4: 4 Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”

Judith 3.5: 5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words.

Judith 3.6: 6 He came down toward the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.

Judith 3.7: 7 They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.

Judith 3.8: 8 He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god.

Judith 3.9: 9 Then he came toward Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea.

Judith 3.10: 10 He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.

Judith 4.1: 4The children of Israel that lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly.

Judith 4.2: 2 They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God;

Judith 4.3: 3 because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned.

Judith 4.4: 4 And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem;

Judith 4.5: 5 and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped.

Judith 4.6: 6 Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon toward the plain that is near to Dothaim,

Judith 4.7: 7 charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most.

Judith 4.8: 8 And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem.

Judith 4.9: 9 And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls.

Judith 4.10: 10 They, their wives, their children, their cattle, and every sojourner, hireling, and servant bought with their money put sackcloth on their loins.

Judith 4.11: 11 Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar.

Judith 4.12: 12 They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at.

Judith 4.13: 13 The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.

Judith 4.14: 14 And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests that stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people.

Judith 4.15: 15 They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good.

Judith 5.1: 5Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains.

Judith 5.2: 2 Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,

Judith 5.3: 3 and he said to them, “Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army?

Judith 5.4: 4 Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all that dwell in the west?”

Judith 5.5: 5 Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.

Judith 5.7: 7 They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans.

Judith 5.8: 8 They departed from the way of their parents, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.

Judith 5.9: 9 Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle.

Judith 5.10: 10 Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation.

Judith 5.11: 11 Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labor in brick,1 and made them slaves.

Judith 5.12: 12 They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.

Judith 5.14: 14 and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness.

Judith 5.15: 15 They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country.

Judith 5.16: 16 They cast out before them the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Shechemite, and all the Girgashites, and they lived in that country many days.

Judith 5.17: 17 And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them.

Judith 5.18: 18 But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries.

Judith 5.19: 19 And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.

Judith 5.20: 20 And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them.

Judith 5.21: 21 But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth.”

Judith 5.22: 22 It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all that lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him.

Judith 5.23: 23 For, they said, “We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong.

Judith 5.24: 24 Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes.”

Judith 6.1: 6And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab1 before all the people of the foreigners,

Judith 6.2: 2 “And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim,2 that you have prophesied among us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?

Judith 6.3: 3 He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses.

Judith 6.4: 4 For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken3 will not be in vain.’

Judith 6.5: 5 But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.

Judith 6.6: 6 And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall among their slain when I return.

Judith 6.7: 7 Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents.

Judith 6.9: 9 And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground.”

Judith 6.10: 10 Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.

Judith 6.11: 11 So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia.

Judith 6.12: 12 When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them.

Judith 6.13: 13 They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord.

Judith 6.14: 14 But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city;

Judith 6.15: 15 which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.

Judith 6.16: 16 Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened.

Judith 6.17: 17 He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel.

Judith 6.19: 19 “O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day.”

Judith 6.21: 21 Then Ozias took him out of the assembly into his house, and made a feast for the elders. They called on the God of Israel for help all that night.

Judith 7.1: 7The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all the people who had come to be his allies, that they should move their camp toward Bethulia, take beforehand the ascents of the hill country, and make war against the children of Israel.

Judith 7.2: 2 Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage, and the men that were on foot among them: an exceedingly great multitude.

Judith 7.3: 3 They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, by the fountain. They spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which is near Esdraelon.

Judith 7.4: 4 But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were troubled exceedingly, and everyone said to his neighbor, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight.

Judith 7.5: 5 Every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.

Judith 7.6: 6 But on the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,

Judith 7.7: 7 viewed the ascents to their city, and searched out the springs of the waters, seized upon them, and set garrisons of men of war over them. Then he departed back to his people.

Judith 7.8: 8 All the rulers of the children of Esau, all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast came to him and said,

Judith 7.9: 9 “Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not losses in your army.

Judith 7.10: 10 For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, for it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.

Judith 7.11: 11 And now, my lord, don’t fight against them as men fight who join battle, and there will not so much as one man of your people perish.

Judith 7.12: 12 Remain in your camp, and keep every man of your army safe. Let your servants get possession of the water spring, which flows from the foot of the mountain,

Judith 7.13: 13 because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city.

Judith 7.14: 14 They will be consumed with famine, they and their wives and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell.

Judith 7.15: 15 And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace.”

Judith 7.16: 16 Their words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and in the sight of all his servants; and he ordered them to do as they had spoken.

Judith 7.17: 17 And the army of the children of Ammon moved, and with them five thousand of the children of Asshur, and they encamped in the valley. They seized the waters and the springs of the waters of the children of Israel.

Judith 7.18: 18 The children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and encamped in the hill country near Dothaim. They sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east, near Ekrebel, which is near Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur. The rest of the army of the Assyrians encamped in the plain, and covered all the face of the land. Their tents and baggage were pitched upon it in a great crowd. They were an exceedingly great multitude.

Judith 7.19: 19 The children of Israel cried to the Lord their God, for their spirit fainted; for all their enemies had surrounded them. There was no way to escape out from among them.

Judith 7.20: 20 All the army of Asshur remained around them, their footmen and their chariots and their horsemen, thirty-four days. All their vessels of water ran dry for all the inhabitants of Bethulia.

Judith 7.21: 21 The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure.

Judith 7.22: 22 Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them.

Judith 7.23: 23 All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,

Judith 7.24: 24 “God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur.

Judith 7.25: 25 Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction.

Judith 7.26: 26 And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.

Judith 7.27: 27 For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death.

Judith 7.28: 28 We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!”

Judith 7.29: 29 And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice.

Judith 7.30: 30 And Ozias said to them, “Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.

Judith 7.31: 31 But if these days pass, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say.”

Judith 7.32: 32 Then he dispersed the people, every man to his own camp; and they went away to the walls and towers of their city. He sent the women and children into their houses. They were brought very low in the city.

Judith 8.1: 8In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel.

Judith 8.2: 2 Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest.

Judith 8.3: 3 For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon.

Judith 8.5: 5 She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her.

Judith 8.6: 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel.

Judith 8.7: 7 She was of a goodly countenance, and exceedingly beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands.

Judith 8.8: 8 No one said anything evil about her; for she feared God exceedingly.

Judith 8.9: 9 She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days.

Judith 8.10: 10 So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city.

Judith 8.11: 11 They came to her, and she said to them, “Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you.

Judith 8.12: 12 Now who are you that you have tempted God this day, and stand in the place of God among the children of men?

Judith 8.14: 14 For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger!

Judith 8.15: 15 For if he has not decided to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies.

Judith 8.16: 16 But don’t you pledge the counsels of the Lord our God! For God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty.

Judith 8.17: 17 Therefore let’s wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us. He will hear our voice, if it pleases him.

Judith 8.18: 18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;

Judith 8.19: 19 for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great fall before our enemies.

Judith 8.20: 20 But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race.

Judith 8.21: 21 For if we are taken so, all Judea will sit upon the ground, and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it.

Judith 8.22: 22 And the slaughter of our kindred, and the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach before those who take us for a possession.

Judith 8.23: 23 For our bondage will not be ordered to favor; but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonor.

Judith 8.24: 24 And now, kindred, let’s show an example to our kindred, because their soul hangs upon us, and the sanctuary, the house, and the altar rest upon us.

Judith 8.25: 25 Besides all this let’s give thanks to the Lord our God, who tries us, even as he did our fathers also.

Judith 8.26: 26 Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

Judith 8.27: 27 For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord does scourge them that come near to him, to admonish them.”

Judith 8.28: 28 And Ozias said to her, “All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words.

Judith 8.29: 29 For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good.

Judith 8.30: 30 But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.

Judith 8.31: 31 And now pray you for us, because you are a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we will faint no more.”

Judith 8.32: 32 Then Judith said to them, “Hear me, and I will do a thing, which will go down to all generations among the children of our race.

Judith 8.33: 33 You shall all stand at the gate tonight. I will go out with my maid. Within the days after which you said that you would deliver the city to our enemies, the Lord will visit Israel by my hand.

Judith 8.34: 34 But you shall not inquire of my act; for I will not declare it to you, until the things are finished that I will do.”

Judith 8.35: 35 Then Ozias and the rulers said to her, “Go in peace. May the Lord God be before you, to take vengeance on our enemies.”

Judith 9.1: 9But Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. The incense of that evening was now being offered at Jerusalem in the house of God, and Judith cried to the Lord with a loud voice, and said,

Judith 9.2: 2 “O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so.

Judith 9.3: 3 Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived,1 to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones;

Judith 9.4: 4 and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow.

Judith 9.5: 5 For you did the things that were before those things, and those things, and such as come after; and you planned the things which are now, and the things which are to come. The things which you planned came to pass.

Judith 9.6: 6 Yes, the things which you determined stood before you, and said, ‘Behold, we are here; for all your ways are prepared, and your judgement is with foreknowledge.’

Judith 9.7: 7 For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power. They are exalted with horse and rider. They were proud of the strength of their footmen. They have trusted in shield, spear, bow, and sling. They don’t know that you are the Lord who breaks the battles. ‘The Lord’ is your name.

Judith 9.8: 8 Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword.

Judith 9.9: 9 Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived.

Judith 9.10: 10 Strike by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant. Break down their arrogance by the hand of a woman.

Judith 9.11: 11 For your power stands not in multitude, nor your might in strong men: but you are a God of the afflicted. You are a helper of the minorities, a helper of the weak, a protector of the forsaken, a savior of those who are without hope.

Judith 9.12: 12 Yes, yes, God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and of the earth. Creator of the waters, King of every creature,2 hear my prayer.

Judith 9.13: 13 Make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who intend hard things against your covenant, your holy house, the top of Sion, and the house of the possession of your children.

Judith 9.14: 14 Make every nation and tribe of yours to know that you are God, the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protects the race of Israel but you.”

Judith 10.1: 10It came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and had finished saying all these words,

Judith 10.2: 2 that she rose up where she had fallen down, called her maid, and went down into the house that she used to live in on the Sabbath days and on her feast days.

Judith 10.3: 3 She pulled off the sackcloth which she had put on, took off the garments of her widowhood, washed her body all over with water, anointed herself with rich ointment, braided the hair of her head, and put a tiara upon it. She put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear in the days of the life of Manasses her husband.

Judith 10.4: 4 She took sandals for her feet, and put her chains around her, and her bracelets, her rings, her earrings, and all her jewelry, and decked herself bravely, to deceive the eyes of all men who would see her.

Judith 10.5: 5 She gave her maid a leather container of wine and a flask of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, lumps of figs, and fine1 bread. She packed all her vessels together, and laid them upon her.

Judith 10.6: 6 They went out to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found Ozias and the elders of the city, Chabris and Charmis standing by it.

Judith 10.7: 7 But when they saw her, that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very exceedingly, and said to her,

Judith 10.8: 8 “May the God of our fathers give you favor, and accomplish your purposes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem.”

Judith 10.9: 9 and said to them, “Command that they open the gate of the city for me, and I will go out to accomplish the things you spoke with me about.”

Then Judith went out, she, and her handmaid with her. The men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain, until she had passed the valley, and they could see her no more.

Judith 10.11: 11 They went straight onward in the valley. The watch of the Assyrians met her;

Judith 10.12: 12 and they took her, and asked her, “Of what people are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?”

She said, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews. I am fleeing away from their presence, because they are about to be given you to be consumed.

Judith 10.13: 13 I am coming into the presence of Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth. I will show him a way that he can go and win all the hill country, and there will not be lacking of his men one person, nor one life.”

Judith 10.14: 14 Now when the men heard her words, and considered her countenance, the beauty thereof was exceedingly marvelous in their eyes. They said to her,

Judith 10.15: 15 “You have saved your life, in that you have hurried to come down to the presence of our master. Now come to his tent. Some of us will guide you until they deliver you into his hands.

Judith 10.16: 16 But when2 you stand before him, don’t be afraid in your heart, but declare to him according to your words; and he will treat you well.”

Judith 10.17: 17 They chose out of them a hundred men, and appointed them to accompany her and her maid; and they brought them to the tent of Holofernes.

Judith 10.18: 18 And there was great excitement throughout all the camp, for her coming was reported among the tents. They came and surrounded her as she stood outside Holofernes’ tent, until they told him about her.

Judith 10.19: 19 They marveled at her beauty, and marveled at the children of Israel because of her. Each one said to his neighbor, “Who would despise this people, that have among them such women? For it is not good that one man of them be left, seeing that, if they are let go, they will be able to deceive the whole earth.

Judith 10.20: 20 Those who lay near Holofernes, and all his servants, went out and brought her into the tent.

Judith 10.21: 21 And Holofernes was resting upon his bed under the canopy, which was woven with purple, gold, emeralds, and precious stones.

Judith 10.22: 22 And they told him about her; and he came out into the space before his tent, with silver lamps going before him.

Judith 10.23: 23 But when Judith had come before him and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her countenance. She fell down upon her face, and bowed down to him, but his servants raised her up.

Judith 11.1: 11Holofernes said to her, “Woman, take courage. Don’t be afraid in your heart; for I never hurt anyone who has chosen to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.

Judith 11.2: 2 And now, if your people who dwell in the hill country had not slighted me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them; but they have done these things to themselves.

Judith 11.3: 3 And now tell me why you fled from them and came to us; for you have come to save yourself. Take courage! You will live tonight, and hereafter;

Judith 11.4: 4 for there is no one that will wrong you, but all will treat you well, as is done to the servants of king Nebuchadnezzar my lord.”

Judith 11.5: 5 And Judith said to him, “Receive the words of your servant, and let your handmaid speak in your presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.

Judith 11.6: 6 If you will follow the words of your handmaid, God will bring the thing to pass perfectly with you; and my lord will not fail to accomplish his purposes.

Judith 11.7: 7 As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth lives, and as his power lives, who has sent you for the preservation of every living thing, not only do men serve him by you, but also the beasts of the field, the cattle, and the birds of the sky will live through your strength, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and of all his house.

Judith 11.8: 8 For we have heard of your wisdom and the subtle plans of your soul. It has been reported in all the earth that you only are brave in all the kingdom, mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.

Judith 11.9: 9 And now as concerning the matter which Achior spoke in your council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared to them all that he had spoken before you.

Judith 11.10: 10 Therefore, O lord and master, don’t neglect his word; but lay it up in your heart, for it is true; for our race will not be punished, neither will the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.

Judith 11.11: 11 And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, and that death may fall upon them, their sin has overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whenever they do wickedness.

Judith 11.12: 12 Since their food failed them, and all their water was scant, they took counsel to lay hands upon their cattle, and determined to consume all those things which God charged them by his laws that they should not eat.

Judith 11.13: 13 They are resolved to spend the first fruits of the corn, and the tenths of the wine and the oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who stand before the face of our God in Jerusalem; which things it is not fitting for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.

Judith 11.14: 14 They have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done this thing, to bring them permission from the council of elders.

Judith 11.15: 15 It will be, when word comes to them and they do it, they will be given to you to be destroyed the same day.

Judith 11.16: 16 Therefore I your servant, knowing all this, fled away from their presence. God sent me to work things with you, at which all the earth will be astonished, even as many as hear it.

Judith 11.17: 17 For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night. Now, my lord, I will stay with you, and your servant will go out by night into the valley. I will pray to God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.

Judith 11.18: 18 Then I will come and show it also to you. Then you shall go out with all your army, and there will be none of them that will resist you.

Judith 11.19: 19 And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your seat in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”

Judith 11.20: 20 Her words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and of all his servants. They marveled at her wisdom, and said,

Judith 11.21: 21 “There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.”

Judith 11.22: 22 Holofernes said to her, “God did well to send you before the people, that might would be in our hands, and destruction among those who slighted my lord.

Judith 11.23: 23 And now you are beautiful in your countenance, and wise in your words. If you will do as you have spoken, your God will be my God, and you will dwell in the house of king Nebuchadnezzar, and will be renowned through the whole earth.”

Judith 12.1: 12He commanded that she should be brought in where his silver vessels were set, and asked that his servants should prepare some of his own meats for her, and that she should drink from his own wine.

Judith 12.2: 2 And Judith said, “I will not eat of it, lest there be an occasion of stumbling: but provision will be made for me of the things that have come with me.”

Judith 12.3: 3 And Holofernes said to her, “But if the things that are with you should fail, from where will we be able to give you more like it? For there is none of your race with us.”

Judith 12.4: 4 And Judith said to him, “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not spend those things that are with me, until the Lord works by my hand the things that he has determined.”

Judith 12.5: 5 Then Holofernes’ servants brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Then she rose up toward the morning watch,

Judith 12.6: 6 and sent to Holofernes, saying, “Let my lord now command that they allow your servant to go out to pray.”

Judith 12.7: 7 Holofernes commanded his guards that they should not stop her. She stayed in the camp three days, and went out every night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself at the fountain of water in the camp.

Judith 12.8: 8 And when she came up, she implored the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of his people.

Judith 12.9: 9 She came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she ate her food toward evening.

Judith 12.10: 10 It came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a feast for his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.

Judith 12.11: 11 And he said to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, “Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman who is with you that she come to us, and eat and drink with us.

Judith 12.12: 12 For, behold, it is a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we don’t draw her to ourselves, she will laugh us to scorn.”

Judith 12.13: 13 Bagoas went from the presence of Holofernes, and came in to her, and said, “Let this fair lady not fear to come to my lord, and to be honored in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us, and to be made this day as one of the daughters of the children of Asshur, which wait in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.”

Judith 12.14: 14 Judith said to him, “Who am I, that I should contradict my lord? For whatever would be pleasing in his eyes, I will do speedily, and this will be my joy to the day of my death.”

Judith 12.15: 15 She arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire; and her servant went and laid fleeces on the ground for her next to Holofernes, which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.

Judith 12.16: 16 Judith came in and sat down, and Holofernes’ heart was ravished with her. His soul was moved, and he exceedingly desired her company. He was watching for a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.

Judith 12.18: 18 Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”

Judith 12.19: 19 Then she took and ate and drank before him what her servant had prepared.

Judith 12.20: 20 Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank exceedingly much wine, more than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.

Judith 13.1: 13But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.

Judith 13.2: 2 But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.

Judith 13.3: 3 Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words.

Judith 13.4: 4 All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.

Judith 13.5: 5 For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us.

Judith 13.6: 6 She came to the rail of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his scimitar from there.

Judith 13.7: 7 She drew near to the bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.”

Judith 13.8: 8 She struck twice upon his neck with all her might, and took away his head from him,

Judith 13.9: 9 tumbled his body down from the bed, and took down the canopy from the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid;

Judith 13.10: 10 and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.

Judith 13.11: 11 Judith said afar off to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet in Israel, and his might against the enemy, as he has done even this day.”

Judith 13.12: 12 It came to pass, when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called together the elders of the city.

Judith 13.13: 13 They all ran together, both small and great, for it was strange to them that she had come. They opened the gate and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.

Judith 13.14: 14 She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand tonight!”

Judith 13.15: 15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.

Judith 13.16: 16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”

Judith 13.17: 17 All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.”

Judith 13.18: 18 Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.

Judith 13.19: 19 For your hope will not depart from the heart of men that remember the strength of God forever.

Judith 13.20: 20 May God turn these things to you for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”

Judith 14.1: 14Judith said to them, “Hear me now, my kindred, and take this head, and hang it upon the battlement of your wall.

Judith 14.2: 2 It will be, so soon as the morning appears, and the sun comes up on the earth, you shall each take up his weapons of war, and every valiant man of you go out of the city. You shall set a captain over them, as though you would go down to the plain toward the watch of the children of Asshur; but you men shall not go down.

Judith 14.3: 3 These shall take up their full armor, and shall go into their camp and rouse up the captains of the army of Asshur. They will run together to Holofernes’ tent. They won’t find him. Fear will fall upon them, and they will flee before your face.

Judith 14.4: 4 You men, and all that inhabit every coast of Israel, shall pursue them and overthrow them as they go.

Judith 14.5: 5 But before you do these things, summon Achior the Ammonite to me, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us, as it were to death.

Judith 14.6: 6 And they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; but when he came, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell upon his face, and his spirit failed.

Judith 14.7: 7 But when they had recovered him,1 he fell at Judith’s feet, and bowed down to her, and said, “Blessed are you in every tent of Judah, and in every nation, which hearing your name will be troubled.

And Judith declared to him in the midst of the people all the things that she had done, from the day that she went out until the time that she spoke to them.

Judith 14.9: 9 But when she finished speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.

Judith 14.10: 10 But when Achior saw all the things that the God of Israel had done, he believed in God exceedingly, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the house of Israel, to this day.

Judith 14.11: 11 But as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took up his weapons, and they went forth by bands to the ascents of the mountain.

Judith 14.12: 12 But when the children of Asshur saw them, they sent word to their leaders; but they went to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their rulers.

Judith 14.13: 13 They came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that was over all that he had, “Wake our lord up, now; for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.”

Judith 14.14: 14 Bagoas went in, and knocked at the outer door of the tent; for he supposed that he was sleeping with Judith.

Judith 14.15: 15 But when no one listened to him, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead, and his head had been taken from him.

Judith 14.16: 16 He cried with a loud voice, with weeping and groaning and a mighty cry, and tore his garments.

Judith 14.17: 17 He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leaped out to the people, and cried aloud,

Judith 14.18: 18 “The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the Hebrews has brought shame upon the house of king Nebuchadnezzar; for, behold, Holofernes lies upon the ground, and his head is not on him!”

Judith 14.19: 19 But when the rulers of the army of Asshur heard the words, they tore their coats, and their soul was troubled exceedingly. There was a cry and an exceedingly great noise in the midst of the camp.

Judith 15.1: 15When those who were in the tents heard, they were amazed at what happened.

Judith 15.2: 2 Trembling and fear fell upon them, and no man dared stay any more in the sight of his neighbor, but rushing out with one accord, they fled into every way of the plain and of the hill country.

Judith 15.3: 3 Those who had encamped in the hill country round about Bethulia fled away. And then the children of Israel, every one who was a warrior among them, rushed out upon them.

Judith 15.4: 4 Ozias sent to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, and Chola, and to every coast of Israel, to tell about the things that had been accomplished, and that all should rush upon their enemies to destroy them.

Judith 15.5: 5 But wnen the children of Israel heard, they all fell upon them with one accord, and struck them to Chobai. Yes, and in like manner also they of Jerusalem and of all the hill country came (for men had told them about what happened in their enemies’ camp), and those who were in Gilead and in Galilee fell upon their flank with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and its borders.

Judith 15.6: 6 The rest of the people who lived at Bethulia fell upon the camp of Asshur, and plundered them, and were enriched exceedingly.

Judith 15.7: 7 The children of Israel returned from the slaughter, and got possession of that which remained. The villages and the cities that were in the hill country and in the plain country, took many spoils; for there was an exceedingly great supply.

Judith 15.8: 8 Joakim the high priest, and the elders of the children of Israel who lived in Jerusalem, came to see the good things which the Lord had showed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.

Judith 15.9: 9 When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord, and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem! You are the great glory of Israel! You are the great rejoicing of our race!

Judith 15.10: 10 You have done all these things by your hand. You have done with Israel the things that are good, and God is pleased with it. Blessed be you with the Almighty Lord forever.”

Judith 15.11: 11 And the people plundered the camp for the space of thirty days: and they gave Holofernes’ tent to Judith, along with all his silver cups, his beds, his bowls, and all his furniture. She took them, and placed them on her mule, and prepared her wagons, and heaped them on it.

Judith 15.12: 12 And all the women of Israel ran together to see her; and they blessed her, and made a dance among them for her. She took branches in her hand, and distributed them to the women who were with her.1

Judith 15.13: 13 Then they made themselves garlands of olive, she and those who were with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.

Judith 16.1: 16And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.

Judith 16.6: 6 “The Almighty Lord brought them to nothing by the hand of a woman.

but Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.

Judith 16.15: 15 For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters,

Judith 16.18: 18 Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts.

Judith 16.19: 19 Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.

Judith 16.20: 20 And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.

Judith 16.21: 21 But after these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.

Judith 16.22: 22 Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.

Judith 16.23: 23 She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.

Judith 16.24: 24 The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred.

Judith 16.25: 25 There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.

The book of Esther in the Greek Septuagint contains 5 additions that the traditional Hebrew text doesn’t have. These additions are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. Those additions are enclosed in [square brackets]. Because the additions by themselves make little sense without the broader context of the book, we present here a translation of the whole book of Esther from the Greek.

We have chosen not to distract the reader with confusing out-of-order chapter numbers that would result from using the KJV versification, but rather merge these 5 additions as extensions at the beginning of 1:1 and after 3:13, 4:17, 8:12, and 10:3. This makes some verses (1:1, 5:1, and 8:12) really long, but it also makes the verses line up with the same verse numbers in Esther as translated from the traditional Hebrew text. Some of the proper names in this book have been changed to the more familiar Hebrew form instead of the direct transliteration from the Greek.

Esther (Greek) 1.1: 1[In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision. Now he was of the captivity which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem, with Jeconiah the king of Judea. This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth. And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them. Every nation was prepared for battle by their voice, even to fight against the nation of the just. Behold, a day of darkness and blackness, suffering and anguish, affection and tumult upon the earth. And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions. They prepared to die, and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry. Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honorable.

Mordecai, who had seen this vision and what God desired to do, having arisen, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even until night.

Mordecai rested quietly in the palace with Gabatha and Tharrha the king’s two chamberlains, eunuchs who guarded the palace. He heard their conversation and searched out their plans. He learned that they were preparing to lay hands on king Ahasuerus; and he informed the king concerning them. The king examined the two chamberlains. They confessed, and were led away and executed. The king wrote these things for a record. Mordecai also wrote concerning these matters. The king commanded Mordecai to serve in the palace, and gave gifts for this service. But Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bougean was honored in the sight of the king, and he endeavored to harm Mordecai and his people, because of the king’s two chamberlains.]1 And it came to pass after these things2 in the days of Ahasuerus, —(this Ahasuerus ruled over one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India)—

Esther (Greek) 1.2: 2 in those days, when king Ahasuerus was on the throne in the city of Susa.

Esther (Greek) 1.3: 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and for the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the local governors.

Esther (Greek) 1.4: 4 After this, after he had shown them the wealth of his kingdom and the abundant glory of his wealth during one hundred eighty days,

Esther (Greek) 1.5: 5 when the days of the wedding feast were completed, the king made a banquet for the people of the nations who were present in the city for six days, in the court of the king’s house,

Esther (Greek) 1.6: 6 which was adorned with fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of white marble and stone. There were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of white marble, with transparent coverings variously flowered, having roses worked around it.

Esther (Greek) 1.7: 7 There were gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, with abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.

Esther (Greek) 1.8: 8 This banquet was not according to the appointed law; but as the king desired to have it. He charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.

Esther (Greek) 1.9: 9 Also Vashti the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Ahasuerus lived.

Esther (Greek) 1.10: 10 Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,

Esther (Greek) 1.11: 11 to bring in the queen to him, to 3 enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.

Esther (Greek) 1.12: 12 But queen Vashti didn’t listen to him to come with the chamberlains; so the king was grieved and angered.

Esther (Greek) 1.13: 13 And he said to his friends, “This is what Vashti said. Therefore pronounce your legal judgement on this case.”

Esther (Greek) 1.14: 14 So Arkesaeus, Sarsathaeus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,

Esther (Greek) 1.15: 15 and reported to him according to the laws what it was proper to do to queen Vashti, because she had not done the things commanded by the king through the chamberlains.

Esther (Greek) 1.16: 16 And Memucan said to the king and to the princes, “Queen Vashti has not wronged the king only, but also all the king’s rulers and princes:

Esther (Greek) 1.17: 17 for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she 4 disobeyed the king. As she then refused to obey king Ahasuerus,

Esther (Greek) 1.18: 18 so this day the other wives of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, will dare in the same way to dishonor their husbands.

Esther (Greek) 1.19: 19 If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen to come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’

Esther (Greek) 1.20: 20 Let the law of the king which he will have made be widely proclaimed in his kingdom. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.”

Esther (Greek) 1.21: 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Memucan had said,

Esther (Greek) 1.22: 22 and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, so that men might be feared in their own houses.

Esther (Greek) 2.1: 2After this, the king’s anger was pacified, and he no more mentioned Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.

Esther (Greek) 2.2: 2 Then the servants of the king said, “Let chaste, beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

Esther (Greek) 2.3: 3 Let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair, chaste young ladies and bring them to the city Susa, into the women’s apartment. Let them be consigned to the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women. Then let things for purification and other needs be given to them.

Esther (Greek) 2.4: 4 Let the woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.”

Esther (Greek) 2.5: 5 Now there was a Jew in the city Susa, and his name was Mordecai, the son of Jairus, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Esther (Greek) 2.6: 6 He had been brought as a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into captivity.

Esther (Greek) 2.7: 7 He had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father’s brother. Her name was Esther. When her parents died, he brought her up to womanhood as his own. This lady was beautiful.

Esther (Greek) 2.8: 8 And because the king’s ordinance was published, many ladies were gathered to the city of Susa under the hand of Hegai; and Esther was brought to Hegai, the keeper of the women.

Esther (Greek) 2.9: 9 The lady pleased him, and she found favor in his sight. He hurried to give her the things for purification, her portion, and the seven maidens appointed her out of the palace. He treated her and her maidens well in the women’s apartment.

Esther (Greek) 2.10: 10 But Esther didn’t reveal her family or her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her not to tell.

Esther (Greek) 2.11: 11 But Mordecai used to walk every day by the women’s court, to see what would become of Esther.

Esther (Greek) 2.12: 12 Now this was the time for a virgin to go into the king, when she should have fulfilled twelve months; for so are the days of purification fulfilled, six months while they are anointing themselves with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices and women’s purifications.

Esther (Greek) 2.13: 13 And then the lady goes in to the king. The officer that he commands to do so will bring her to come in with him from the women’s apartment to the king’s chamber.

Esther (Greek) 2.14: 14 She enters in the evening, and in the morning she departs to the second women’s apartment, where Hegai the king’s chamberlain is keeper of the women. She doesn’t go in to the king again, unless she is called by name.

Esther (Greek) 2.15: 15 And when the time was fulfilled for Esther the daughter of Aminadab the brother of Mordecai’s father to go in to the king, she neglected nothing which the chamberlain, the women’s keeper, commanded; for Esther found grace in the sight of all who looked at her.

Esther (Greek) 2.16: 16 So Esther went in to king Ahasuerus in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.

Esther (Greek) 2.17: 17 The king loved Esther, and she found favor beyond all the other virgins. He put the queen’s crown on her.

Esther (Greek) 2.18: 18 The king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he granted a remission of taxes to those who were under his dominion.

Esther (Greek) 2.20: 20 Now Esther had not revealed her 1 kindred; for so Mordecai commanded her, to fear God, and perform his commandments, as when she was with him. Esther didn’t change her manner of life.

Esther (Greek) 2.21: 21 Two chamberlains of the king, the chiefs of the body-guard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill king Ahasuerus.

Esther (Greek) 2.22: 22 And the matter was discovered by Mordecai, and he made it known to Esther, and she declared to the king the matter of the conspiracy.

Esther (Greek) 2.23: 23 And the king examined the two chamberlains, and hanged them. Then the king gave orders to make a note for a memorial in the royal 2 records of the good offices of Mordecai, as a commendation.

Esther (Greek) 3.1: 3After this, king Ahasuerus highly honored Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Bugaean. He exalted him and set his seat above all his friends.

Esther (Greek) 3.2: 2 All in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai didn’t bow down to him.

Esther (Greek) 3.3: 3 And they in the king’s palace said to Mordecai, “Mordecai, why do you transgress the commands of the king?”

Esther (Greek) 3.4: 4 They questioned him daily, but he didn’t listen to them; so they reported to Haman that Mordecai resisted the commands of the king; and Mordecai had shown to them that he was a Jew.

Esther (Greek) 3.5: 5 When Haman understood that Mordecai didn’t bow down to him, he was greatly enraged,

Esther (Greek) 3.6: 6 and took counsel to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Ahasuerus.

Esther (Greek) 3.7: 7 In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerusin the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, he made a decision by casting lots by day and month, to kill the race of Mordecai in one day. The lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar.

Esther (Greek) 3.8: 8 So he spoke to king Ahasuerus, saying, “There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from all the other nations. They disobey the king’s laws. It is not expedient for the king to tolerate them.

Esther (Greek) 3.9: 9 If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them, and I will remit into the king’s treasury ten thousand talents of silver.”

Esther (Greek) 3.10: 10 So the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Haman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.

Esther (Greek) 3.11: 11 The king said to Haman, “Keep the silver, and treat the nation as you will.”

Esther (Greek) 3.12: 12 So the king’s recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to one hundred twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their languages, in the name of king Ahasuerus.

Esther (Greek) 3.13: 13 The message was sent by couriers throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, to utterly destroy the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. 1[The following is the copy of the letter. “From the great king Ahasuerus to the rulers and the governors under them of one hundred twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him:

“Ruling over many nations and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was determined (not elated by the confidence of power, but ever conducting myself with great moderation and gentleness) to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. When I had asked my counselors how this should be brought to pass, Haman, who excels in soundness of judgment among us, and has been manifestly well inclined without wavering and with unshaken fidelity, and had obtained the second post in the kingdom, informed us that a certain ill-disposed people is mixed up with all the tribes throughout the world, opposed in their law to every other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the king, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. Having then conceived that this nation is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; we instruct you in the letter written by Haman, who is set over the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; that the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.”]

Esther (Greek) 3.14: 14 Copies of the letters were published in every province; and an order was given to all the nations to be ready for that day.

Esther (Greek) 3.15: 15 This business was hastened also in Susa. The king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.

Esther (Greek) 4.1: 4But Mordecai, having perceived what was done, tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself. Having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, “A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed!”

Esther (Greek) 4.2: 2 He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes.

Esther (Greek) 4.3: 3 And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They wore sackcloth and ashes.

Esther (Greek) 4.4: 4 The queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her; and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed. She sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth; but he refused.

Esther (Greek) 4.5: 5 So Esther called for her chamberlain Hathach, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mordecai.

Esther (Greek) 4.7: 7 Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.

Esther (Greek) 4.8: 8 And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people. “Remember, he said, the days of your humble condition, how you were nursed by my hand; because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.”

Esther (Greek) 4.11: 11 ‘All the nations of the empire know than any man or woman who goes in to the king into the inner court without being called, that person can’t live; except to whomever the king stretches out his golden sceptre, he shall live. I haven’t been called to go into the king for thirty days.’”

Esther (Greek) 4.12: 12 So Hathach reported to Mordecai all the words of Esther.

Esther (Greek) 4.13: 13 Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.

Esther (Greek) 4.14: 14 For if you refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”

Esther (Greek) 4.15: 15 And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mordecai, saying,

Esther (Greek) 4.16: 16 “Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and all of you fast for me, and don’t eat or drink for three days, night and day. My maidens and I will also fast. Then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.”

Esther (Greek) 4.17: 17 So Mordecai went and did all that Esther commanded him. 1

Esther (Greek) 4.18: 18 [He prayed to the Lord, making mention of all the works of the Lord.

Esther (Greek) 4.19: 19 He said, “Lord 2 God, you are king ruling over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you in your purpose to save Israel;

Esther (Greek) 4.20: 20 for you have made the heaven and the earth and every wonderful thing under heaven.

Esther (Greek) 4.21: 21 You are Lord of all, and there is no one who can resist you, Lord.

Esther (Greek) 4.22: 22 You know all things. You know, Lord, that it is not in insolence, nor arrogance, nor love of glory, that I have done this, to refuse to bow down to the arrogant Haman.

Esther (Greek) 4.23: 23 For I would gladly have kissed the soles of his feet for the safety of Israel.

Esther (Greek) 4.24: 24 But I have done this that I might not set the glory of man above the glory of God. I will not worship anyone except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in arrogance.

Esther (Greek) 4.25: 25 And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraham, spare your people, for our enemies are planning our destruction, and they have desired to destroy your ancient inheritance.

Esther (Greek) 4.26: 26 Do not overlook your people, whom you have redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.

Esther (Greek) 4.27: 27 Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.”

Esther (Greek) 4.28: 28 All Israel cried with all their might, for death was before their eyes.

Esther (Greek) 4.29: 29 And queen Esther took refuge in the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death.

Esther (Greek) 4.30: 30 Having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning. Instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung. She greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the her tangled hair.

Esther (Greek) 4.31: 31 She implored the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, you alone are our king. Help me. I am destitute, and have no helper but you,

Esther (Greek) 4.33: 33 I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said.

Esther (Greek) 4.34: 34 And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,

Esther (Greek) 4.35: 35 because we honored their gods. You are righteous, O Lord.

Esther (Greek) 4.36: 36 But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols

Esther (Greek) 4.37: 37 to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your alter,

Esther (Greek) 4.38: 38 and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to speak the 4 praises of vanities, and that a mortal king should be admired forever.

Esther (Greek) 4.39: 39 O Lord, don’t resign your sceptre to them that are not, and don’t let them laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of him who has 5 begun to injure us.

Esther (Greek) 4.40: 40 Remember us, O Lord, manifest yourself in the time of our affliction. Encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion!

Esther (Greek) 4.41: 41 Put harmonious speech into my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate him who fights against us, to the utter destruction of him who agrees with him.

Esther (Greek) 4.42: 42 But deliver us by your hand, and help me who am destitute, and have none but you, O Lord.

Esther (Greek) 4.43: 43 You know all things, and know that I hate the 6glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.

Esther (Greek) 4.44: 44 You know my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my 7 splendor. I abhor it as a menstruous cloth, and I don’t wear it in the days of my tranquility.

Esther (Greek) 4.45: 45 Your handmaid has not eaten at Haman’s table Haman, and I have not honored the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.

Esther (Greek) 4.46: 46 Neither has your handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.

Esther (Greek) 4.47: 47 O god, who has power over all, listen to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of those who devise mischief. Deliver me from my fear.]

Esther (Greek) 5.1: 51 It came to pass on the third day, when she had ceased praying, that she took off her servant’s dress, and put on her glorious apparel. Being splendidly dressed and having called upon God the Overseer and Preserver of all things, she took her two maids, and she leaned upon one, as a delicate female, and the other followed bearing her train. She was blooming in the perfection of her beauty. Her face was cheerful and looked lovely, but her heart was filled with fear. Having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king. He was sitting on his royal throne. He had put on all his glorious apparel, covered all over with gold and precious stones, and was very terrifying. And having raised his face resplendent with glory, he looked with intense anger. The queen fell, and changed her color as she fainted. She bowed herself upon the head of the maid who went before her. But God changed the spirit of the king to gentleness, and in intense feeling, he sprang from off his throne, and took her into his arms, until she recovered. He comforted her with peaceful words, and said to her, “What is the matter, Esther? I am your relative. Cheer up! You shall not die, for our command is openly declared to you: ‘Draw near.’”

Esther (Greek) 5.2: 2 And having raised the golden sceptre, he laid it upon her neck, and embraced her. He said, “Speak to me.”

So she said to him, “I saw you, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of your glory; for you, my lord, are to be wondered at, and your face is full of grace.” While she was speaking, she fainted and fell.

Esther (Greek) 5.3: 3 The king said, “What do you desire, Esther? What is your request? Ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.”

Esther (Greek) 5.4: 4 Esther said, “Today is a special day. So if it seems good to the king, let both him and Haman come to the feast which I will prepare this day.”

Esther (Greek) 5.5: 5 The king said, “Hurry and bring Haman here, that we may do as Esther said.” So they both come to the feast about which Esther had spoken.

Esther (Greek) 5.6: 6 At the banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your request, queen Esther? You shall have all that you require.”

Esther (Greek) 5.8: 8 if I have found favor in the king’s sight, let the king and Haman come again tomorrow to the feast which I shall prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do the same.”

Esther (Greek) 5.9: 9 So Haman went out from the king very glad and merry; but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.

Esther (Greek) 5.10: 10 Having gone into his own house, he called his friends, and his wife Zeresh.

Esther (Greek) 5.11: 11 He showed them his wealth and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had promoted him to be chief ruler in the kingdom.

Esther (Greek) 5.12: 12 Haman said, “The queen has called no one to the feast with the king but me, and I am invited tomorrow.

Esther (Greek) 5.13: 13 But these things don’t please me while I see Mordecai the Jew in the court.

Esther (Greek) 5.14: 14 Then Zeresh his wife and his friends said to him, “Let a fifty cubit tall 2 gallows be made for you. In the morning you speak to the king, and let Mordecai be hanged on the gallows; but you go in to the feast with the king, and be merry.”

Esther (Greek) 6.1: 6The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the 1 books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.

Esther (Greek) 6.2: 2 And he found the 2 records written concerning Mordecai, how he had told the king about the king’s two chamberlains, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Ahasuerus.

Esther (Greek) 6.3: 3 The king said, “What honor or favor have we done for Mordecai?”

Esther (Greek) 6.4: 4 And while the king was enquiring about the kindness of Mordecai, behold, Haman was in the court. The king said, “Who is in the court? Now Haman had come in to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared.

Esther (Greek) 6.5: 5 The king’s servants said, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.”

Esther (Greek) 6.6: 6 The king said to Haman, “What should I do for the man whom I wish to honor?”

Esther (Greek) 6.7: 7 He said to the king, “As for the man whom the king wishes to honor,

Esther (Greek) 6.8: 8 let the king’s servants bring the robe of fine linen which the king puts on, and the horse on which the king rides,

Esther (Greek) 6.9: 9 and let him give it to one of the king’s noble friends, and let him dress the man whom the king loves. Let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the 3 streets of the city, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king honors!”

Esther (Greek) 6.10: 10 Then the king said to Haman, “You have spoken well. Do so for Mordecai the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what you have spoken be neglected!”

Esther (Greek) 6.11: 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, dressed Mordecai, mounted him on the horse, and went through the streets of the city, and proclaimed, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king wishes to honor.”

Esther (Greek) 6.12: 12 Then Mordecai returned to the palace; but Haman went home mourning, and having his head covered.

Esther (Greek) 6.13: 13 Haman related the events that had happened him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends. His friends and his wife said to him, 4“If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will assuredly fall, and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.”

Esther (Greek) 6.14: 14 While they were still speaking, the chamberlains arrived, to rush Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

Esther (Greek) 7.2: 2 The king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, “What is it, queen Esther? What is your request? What is your petition? It shall be done for you, up to half of my kingdom.”

Esther (Greek) 7.3: 3 She answered and said, “If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted as my petition, and my people as my request.

Esther (Greek) 7.4: 4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male and female slaves, I would not have bothered you, for this 1 isn’t worthy of the king’s palace.”

Esther (Greek) 7.7: 7 The king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. Haman began to beg the queen for mercy; for he saw that he was in trouble.

Esther (Greek) 7.8: 8 The king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, begging the queen for mercy. The king said, “Will you even assault my wife in my house?”

Esther (Greek) 7.9: 9 And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, “Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a fifty cubit high gallows has been set up on Haman’s property.”

Esther (Greek) 7.10: 10 So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was appeased.

Esther (Greek) 8.1: 8On that day, king Ahasuerus gave to Esther all that belonged to Haman the slanderer. The king called Mordecai; for Esther had shown that he was related to her.

Esther (Greek) 8.2: 2 The king took the ring which he had taken away from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. Esther appointed Mordecai over all that had been Haman’s.

Esther (Greek) 8.3: 3 She spoke yet again to the king, and fell at his feet, and implored him to undo Haman’s mischief and all that he had done against the Jews.

Esther (Greek) 8.4: 4 Then the king extended the golden sceptre to Esther; and Esther arose to stand near the king.

Esther (Greek) 8.5: 5 Esther said, “If it seems good to you, and I have found favor in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed, that were written for the destruction of the Jews who are in your kingdom.

Esther (Greek) 8.6: 6 For how could I see the affliction of my people, and how could I survive the destruction of my 1 kindred?”

Esther (Greek) 8.7: 7 Then the king said to Esther, “If I have given and freely granted you all that was Haman’s, and hanged him on a gallows, because he laid his hands upon the Jews, what more do you seek?

Esther (Greek) 8.8: 8 Write in my name whatever seems good to you, and seal it with my ring; for whatever is written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, cannot be countermanded.

Esther (Greek) 8.9: 9 So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the 2 local governors and chiefs of the local governors, from India even to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven local governors, according to the several provinces, in their own languages.

Esther (Greek) 8.10: 10 They were written by order of the king, sealed with his ring, and the letters were sent by the couriers.

Esther (Greek) 8.11: 11 In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased,

Esther (Greek) 8.12: 12 on one day in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar.

Esther (Greek) 8.13: 13 Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom. Let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies. The following is a copy of the letter containing orders.

3 [The great king Ahasuerus sends greetings to the rulers of provinces in one hundred twenty-seven local governance regions, from India to Ethiopia, even to those who are faithful to our interests. Many who have been frequently honored by the most abundant kindness of their 4 benefactors have conceived ambitious designs, and not only endeavor to hurt our subjects, but moreover, not being able to bear prosperity, they also endeavor to plot against their own benefactors. They not only would utterly abolish gratitude from among men, but also, elated by the boastings of men who are strangers to all that is good, they supposed that they would escape the sin-hating vengeance of the ever-seeing God. And oftentimes evil exhortation has made partakers of the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and has involved in irremediable calamities, many of those who had been appointed to offices of authority, who had been entrusted with the management of their friends’ affairs; while men, by the false sophistry of an evil disposition, have deceived the simple candour of the ruling powers. And it is possible to see this, not so much from more ancient traditionary accounts, as it is immediately in your power to see it by examining what things have been wickedly 5 perpetrated by the baseness of men unworthily holding power. It is right to take heed with regard to the future, that we may maintain the government in undisturbed peace for all men, adopting needful changes, and ever judging those cases which come under our notice with truly equitable decisions. For whereas Haman, a Macedonian, the son of Hammedatha, in reality an alien from the blood of the Persians, and differing widely from our mild course of government, having been hospitable entertained by us, obtained so large a share of our universal kindness as to be called our father, and to continue the person next to the royal throne, reverenced of all; he however, 6 overcome by pride, endeavored to deprive us of our dominion, and our 7life; having by various and subtle artifices demanded for destruction both Mordecai our deliverer and perpetual benefactor, and Esther the blameless consort of our kingdom, along with their whole nation. For by these methods he thought, having surprised us in a defenseless state, to transfer the dominion of the Persians to the Macedonians. But we find that the Jews, who have been consigned to destruction by the 8 most abominable of men, are not malefactors, but living according to the justest laws, and being the sons of the living God, the most high and 9 mighty, who maintains the kingdom, to us as well as to our forefathers, in the most excellent order. You will therefore do well in refusing to obey the letter sent by Haman the son of Hammedatha, because he who has done these things has been hanged with his whole family at the gates of Susa, Almighty God having swiftly returned to him a worthy punishment. We enjoin you then, having openly published a copy of this letter in every place, to give the Jews permission to use their own lawful customs, and to strengthen them, that on the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar, on the self-same day, they may defend themselves against those who attack them in a time of affliction. For in the place of the destruction of the chosen race, Almighty God has granted them this time of gladness. Therefore you also, among your notable feasts, must keep a distinct day with all festivity, that both now and hereafter it may be a day of deliverance to us and who are well disposed toward the Persians, but to those that plotted against us a memorial of destruction. And every city and province collectively, which shall not do accordingly, shall be consumed with vengeance by spear and fire. It shall be made not only inaccessible to men, but most hateful to wild beasts and birds forever.] Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom and let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies.

Esther (Greek) 8.14: 14 So the horsemen went forth with haste to perform the king’s commands. The ordinance was also published in Susa.

Esther (Greek) 8.15: 15 Mordecai went out robed in royal apparel, wearing a golden crown and a diadem of fine purple linen. The people in Susa saw it and rejoiced.

Esther (Greek) 8.17: 17 in every city and province where the ordinance was published. Wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth. Many of the Gentiles were circumcised and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.

Esther (Greek) 9.1: 9Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.

Esther (Greek) 9.2: 2 In that day, the adversaries of the Jews perished; for no one resisted, through fear of them.

Esther (Greek) 9.3: 3 For the chiefs of the local governors, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai was upon them.

Esther (Greek) 9.4: 4 For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.

Esther (Greek) 9.10: 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered their property on the same day.

Esther (Greek) 9.11: 11 The number of those who perished in Susa was reported to the king.

Esther (Greek) 9.12: 12 Then the king said to Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. What do you think they have done in the rest of the country? What more do you ask, that it may be done for you?”

Esther (Greek) 9.13: 13 Esther said to the king, “Let it be granted to the Jews to do the same to them tomorrow. Also hang the bodies of the ten sons of Haman.”

Esther (Greek) 9.14: 14 He permitted it to be done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.

Esther (Greek) 9.15: 15 The Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.

Esther (Greek) 9.16: 16 The rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.

Esther (Greek) 9.17: 17 They rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.

Esther (Greek) 9.18: 18 The Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness.

Esther (Greek) 9.19: 19 On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a 1 holy day with joy, each sending gifts of food to his neighbor.

Esther (Greek) 9.20: 20 Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus, both those who were near and those who were far away,

Esther (Greek) 9.21: 21 to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;

Esther (Greek) 9.22: 22 for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of 2 feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends and to the poor.

Esther (Greek) 9.23: 23 And the Jews consented to this as Mordecai wrote to them,

Esther (Greek) 9.24: 24 showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast 3 lots to destroy them utterly;

Esther (Greek) 9.25: 25 also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai; but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, along with his children.

Esther (Greek) 9.26: 26 Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Purim) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.

Esther (Greek) 9.27: 27 Mordecai established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them to observe it, neither would they on any account behave differently; but these days were to be a memorial kept in every generation, city, family, and province.

Esther (Greek) 9.28: 28 These days of the Purim shall be kept forever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.

Esther (Greek) 9.29: 29 Queen Esther the daughter of Aminadab, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Purim.

Esther (Greek) 9.31: 31 Mordecai and Esther the queen established this decision on their own, pledging their own health to their plan.

Esther (Greek) 9.32: 32 And Esther established it by a command forever, and it was written for a memorial.

Esther (Greek) 10.1: 10The king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea.

Esther (Greek) 10.2: 2 As for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes for a memorial.

Esther (Greek) 10.3: 3 Mordecai 1 was viceroy to king Ahasuerus, and was a great man in the kingdom, honored by the Jews, and lived his life loved by all his nation. 2

Esther (Greek) 10.5: 5 For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters; for not one detail of them has failed.

Esther (Greek) 10.6: 6 There was the little spring which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.

Esther (Greek) 10.8: 8 The nations are those nations who combined to destroy the name of the Jews.

Esther (Greek) 10.9: 9 But as for my nation, this is Israel, even those who cried to God and were delivered; for the Lord delivered his people. The Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God worked such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations.

Esther (Greek) 10.10: 10 Therefore he ordained two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other nations.

Esther (Greek) 10.11: 11 And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations.

Esther (Greek) 10.12: 12 God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance.

Esther (Greek) 10.13: 13 They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel.

Esther (Greek) 10.14: 14 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this letter of Purim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]

The Wisdom of Solomon is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Wisdom of Solomon 1.1: 1Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth.

Wisdom of Solomon 1.4: 4 Because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil,

Wisdom of Solomon 1.8: 8 Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen;

and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;

Wisdom of Solomon 1.14: 14 For he created all things that they might have being.

Wisdom of Solomon 1.16: 16 but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon 8death;

Wisdom of Solomon 2.1: 2For they said 1 within themselves, with unsound reasoning,

Wisdom of Solomon 2.3: 3 which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes,

Wisdom of Solomon 2.6: 6 “Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things 6 that now exist.

Wisdom of Solomon 2.8: 8 Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.

Wisdom of Solomon 2.9: 9 Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry.

Wisdom of Solomon 2.18: 18 For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him,

Wisdom of Solomon 2.24: 24 but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil,

Wisdom of Solomon 3.5: 5 Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good;

Wisdom of Solomon 3.8: 8 They will judge nations and have dominion over peoples.

Wisdom of Solomon 3.10: 10 But the ungodly will be punished even as they reasoned,

Wisdom of Solomon 3.11: 11 for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable.

Wisdom of Solomon 3.12: 12 Their wives are foolish and their children are wicked.

Wisdom of Solomon 3.14: 14 So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands,

Wisdom of Solomon 3.16: 16 But children of adulterers will not come to maturity.

Wisdom of Solomon 3.19: 19 For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous.

Wisdom of Solomon 4.3: 3 But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit,

Wisdom of Solomon 4.4: 4 For even if they grow branches and flourish for a season,

Wisdom of Solomon 4.5: 5 Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity.

Wisdom of Solomon 4.6: 6 For unlawfully conceived children are witnesses of wickedness

Wisdom of Solomon 4.7: 7 But a righteous man, even if he dies before his time, will be at rest.

Wisdom of Solomon 4.8: 8 For honorable old age is not that which stands in length of time,

Wisdom of Solomon 4.11: 11 He was caught away, lest evil should change his understanding,

Wisdom of Solomon 4.12: 12 For the witchcraft of worthlessness obscures the things which are good,

Wisdom of Solomon 4.16: 16 but a righteous man who is dead will condemn the ungodly who are living,

and youth that is quickly perfected will condemn the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age.

Wisdom of Solomon 4.20: 20 They will come with coward fear when their sins are counted.

Wisdom of Solomon 5.2: 2 When they see him, they will be troubled with terrible fear,

Wisdom of Solomon 5.7: 7 We 1 took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction.

Wisdom of Solomon 5.14: 14 Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind,

Wisdom of Solomon 5.16: 16 Therefore they will receive the crown of royal dignity

Wisdom of Solomon 5.22: 22 Hailstones full of wrath will be hurled from an engine of war.

Wisdom of Solomon 6.2: 2 Give ear, you rulers who have dominion over many people,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.4: 4 because being officers of his kingdom, you didn’t judge rightly,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.7: 7 For the Sovereign Lord of all will not be impressed with anyone,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.8: 8 but the scrutiny that comes upon the powerful is strict.

Wisdom of Solomon 6.10: 10 For those who have kept the things that are holy in holiness will be made holy.

Wisdom of Solomon 6.13: 13 She anticipates those who desire her, making herself known.

Wisdom of Solomon 6.14: 14 He who rises up early to seek her won’t have difficulty,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.15: 15 For to think upon her is perfection of understanding,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.16: 16 because she herself goes around, seeking those who are worthy of her,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.21: 21 If therefore you delight in thrones and sceptres, you princes of peoples,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.22: 22 But what wisdom is, and how she came into being, I will declare.

Wisdom of Solomon 6.24: 24 But a multitude of wise men is salvation to the world,

Wisdom of Solomon 6.25: 25 Therefore be instructed by my words, and you will profit.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.2: 2 I molded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb,

being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.6: 6 but all men have one entrance into life, and a common departure.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.7: 7 For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given to me.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.12: 12 And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them;

Wisdom of Solomon 7.13: 13 As I learned without guile, I impart without grudging.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.17: 17 For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are,

Wisdom of Solomon 7.20: 20 the natures of living creatures and the raging of wild beasts;

Wisdom of Solomon 7.21: 21 All things that are either secret or manifest I learned,

Wisdom of Solomon 7.22: 22 for wisdom, that is the architect of all things, taught me.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.23: 23 beneficent, loving toward man, steadfast, sure, free from care, all-powerful, all-surveying,

and penetrating through all spirits that are quick to understand, pure, most subtle:

Wisdom of Solomon 7.28: 28 For God loves nothing as much as one who dwells with wisdom.

Wisdom of Solomon 8.1: 8But she reaches from one end to the other with full strength,

Wisdom of Solomon 8.16: 16 When I come into my house, I will find rest with her.

Wisdom of Solomon 8.19: 19 Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul fell.

Wisdom of Solomon 8.20: 20 Or rather, being good, I came into an undefiled body.

Wisdom of Solomon 8.21: 21 But perceiving that I could not otherwise possess wisdom unless God gave her to me—

Wisdom of Solomon 9.5: 5 because I am your servant and the son of your handmaid,

Wisdom of Solomon 9.8: 8 You gave a command to build a sanctuary on your holy mountain,

Wisdom of Solomon 9.17: 17 Who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom,

Wisdom of Solomon 9.18: 18 It was thus that the ways of those who are on earth were corrected,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.1: 101 Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, that was created alone,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.2: 2 And gave him strength to get dominion over all things.

Wisdom of Solomon 10.3: 3 But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.4: 4 And when for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.5: 5 Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.6: 6 While the ungodly were perishing, 3 wisdom delivered a righteous man,

Yes and a 5 disbelieving soul has a memorial there, a pillar of salt still standing.

Wisdom of Solomon 10.9: 9 But wisdom delivered out of troubles those that waited on her.

Wisdom of Solomon 10.10: 10 When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, 9 wisdom guided him in straight paths;

Wisdom of Solomon 10.11: 11 When in their covetousness men dealt hardly with him,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.13: 13 When a righteous man was sold, 11 wisdom forsook him not,

Wisdom of Solomon 10.15: 15 13 Wisdom delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors.

Wisdom of Solomon 11.1: 11She prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet.

Wisdom of Solomon 11.9: 9 For when they were tried, although chastened in mercy,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.13: 13 For when they heard that through their own punishments the others benefited,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.14: 14 For him who long before was thrown out and exposed they stopped mocking.

Wisdom of Solomon 11.15: 15 But in return for the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness,

wherein they were led astray to worship irrational reptiles and wretched vermin,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.16: 16 that they might learn that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished.

Wisdom of Solomon 11.18: 18 or newly-created and unknown wild beasts, full of rage,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.19: 19 which had power not only to consume them by their violence,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.20: 20 Yes and without these they might have fallen by a single breath,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.22: 22 Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.23: 23 But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things,

Wisdom of Solomon 11.25: 25 How would anything have endured unless you had willed it?

Wisdom of Solomon 12.2: 2 Wherefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way,

and, putting them in remembrance by the things wherein they sin, you admonish them,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.4: 4 hating them because they practiced detestable works of enchantments and unholy rites—

Wisdom of Solomon 12.7: 7 that the land which in your sight is most precious of all

Wisdom of Solomon 12.9: 9 Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.10: 10 but judging them little by little you gave them a chance to repent,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.13: 13 For there isn’t any God beside you that cares for all,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.14: 14 No king or prince will be able to look you in the face

Wisdom of Solomon 12.15: 15 But being righteous, you rule all things righteously,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.16: 16 For your strength is the beginning of righteousness,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.17: 17 For when men don’t believe that you are perfect in power, you show your strength,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.18: 18 But you, being sovereign over strength, judge in gentleness,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.20: 20 For if on those who were enemies of your servants5 and due to death

giving them times and opportunities when they might escape from their wickedness;

Wisdom of Solomon 12.22: 22 Therefore while you chasten us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.23: 23 Wherefore also the unrighteous that lived in folly of life,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.24: 24 For truly they went astray very far in the ways of error,

Taking as gods those animals6 which even among their enemies were held in dishonor,

Wisdom of Solomon 12.25: 25 Therefore, as to unreasoning children, you sent your judgement to mock them.

Wisdom of Solomon 12.26: 26 But those who would not be admonished by a mocking correction as of children

Wisdom of Solomon 13.1: 13For truly all men who had no perception of God were vain by nature,

and didn’t gain power to know him who exists from the good things that are seen.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.2: 2 But they thought that either fire, or wind, or swift air,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.3: 3 If it was through delight in their beauty that they took them to be gods,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.4: 4 But if it was through astonishment at their power and influence,

then let them understand from them how much more powerful he who formed them is.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.5: 5 For from the greatness of the beauty of created things,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.7: 7 For they diligently search while living among his works,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.10: 10 But miserable 2 were they, and 3 in dead things 4 were their hopes,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.11: 11 Yes and if some 5 woodcutter, having sawn down a 6 tree that is easily moved,

and fashioning it in attractive form, makes a useful vessel to serve his life’s needs.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.12: 12 Burning the scraps from his handiwork to cook his food,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.17: 17 When he makes his prayer concerning goods and his marriage and children,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.19: 19 And for profit in business and good success of his hands,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.1: 14Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.5: 5 It is your will that the works of your wisdom should be not idle.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.6: 6 For 1 in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.7: 7 For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness;

Wisdom of Solomon 14.8: 8 but the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it;

Wisdom of Solomon 14.9: 9 For both the ungodly and his ungodliness are alike hateful to God;

Wisdom of Solomon 14.10: 10 for truly the deed will be punished together with him who committed it.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.11: 11 Therefore also there will be a visitation among the idols of the nation,

because, though formed of things which God created, they were made an abomination,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.12: 12 For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.13: 13 For they didn’t exist from the beginning, and they won’t exist forever.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.14: 14 For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.16: 16 Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.17: 17 And when men could not honor them in presence because they lived far off,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.18: 18 But worship was raised to a yet higher pitch, even by those who didn’t know him,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.20: 20 So the multitude, allured by reason of the grace of his handiwork,

now consider an object of devotion him that a little before was honored as a man.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.22: 22 Afterward it was not enough for them to go astray concerning the knowledge of God;

but also, while they live in a great war of ignorance that they call a multitude of evils peace.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.23: 23 For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.24: 24 no longer do they guard either life or purity of marriage,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.25: 25 And all things confusedly are filled with blood and murder, theft and deceit,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.26: 26 confusion about what is good, forgetfulness of favors,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.28: 28 For their worshipers either make merry to madness, or prophesy lies,

Wisdom of Solomon 15.2: 2 For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion;

Wisdom of Solomon 15.3: 3 For to be acquainted with you is 1 perfect righteousness,

Wisdom of Solomon 15.4: 4 For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s,

Wisdom of Solomon 15.8: 8 Also, laboring to an evil end, he molds a vain god out of the same clay,

Wisdom of Solomon 15.15: 15 because they even considered all the idols of the nations to be gods,

Wisdom of Solomon 15.17: 17 But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands;

Wisdom of Solomon 15.18: 18 Yes, and they worship the creatures that are most hateful,

Wisdom of Solomon 15.19: 19 Neither, as seen beside other creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.1: 16For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.2: 2 Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.4: 4 For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.5: 5 For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.6: 6 but for admonition were they troubled for a short time,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.7: 7 for he who turned toward it was not saved because of that which was seen,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.10: 10 But your children weren’t overcome by the very teeth of venomous dragons,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.11: 11 For they were bitten to put them in remembrance of your oracles,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.12: 12 For truly it was neither herb nor mollifying plaster that cured them,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.16: 16 for ungodly men, refusing to know you, were scourged in the strength of your arm,

but that these themselves as they looked might see that they were chased through the judgement of God.

Wisdom of Solomon 16.19: 19 At another time even in the midst of water it burns above the power of fire,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.20: 20 Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.21: 21 For your nature showed your sweetness toward your children,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.23: 23 and that this fire again, in order that righteous people may be nourished,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.25: 25 Therefore at that time also, converting itself into all forms,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.28: 28 that it might be known that we must rise before the sun to give you thanks,

Wisdom of Solomon 16.29: 29 for the hope of the unthankful will melt as the winter’s hoar frost,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.2: 2 For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.3: 3 For while they thought that they were unseen in their secret sins,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.4: 4 For neither did the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears,

neither were the brightest flames of the stars strong enough to illuminate that gloomy night;

Wisdom of Solomon 17.6: 6 but only the glimmering of a self-kindled fire appeared to them, full of fear.

Wisdom of Solomon 17.7: 7 The mockeries of their magic arts were powerless, now,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.8: 8 For those who promised to drive away terrors and disorders from a sick soul,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.11: 11 For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.12: 12 For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the help which reason offers;

Wisdom of Solomon 17.14: 14 But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.16: 16 So then whoever it might be, sinking down in his place,

Wisdom of Solomon 17.20: 20 For the whole world was illuminated with clear light,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.2: 2 fet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful;

Wisdom of Solomon 18.4: 4 For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,

through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men.

Wisdom of Solomon 18.5: 5 After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the holy ones,

and when a single child had been abandoned and saved to convict them of their sin,

that, having sure knowledge, they might be cheered by the oaths which they had trusted.

Wisdom of Solomon 18.7: 7 Salvation of the righteous and destruction of the enemies was expected by your people.

Wisdom of Solomon 18.9: 9 For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.11: 11 Both servant and master were punished with the same just doom,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.13: 13 For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments,

upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s son.

Wisdom of Solomon 18.15: 15 your all-powerful word leaped from heaven out of the royal thrones,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.16: 16 bearing as a sharp sword your authentic commandment,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.17: 17 Then immediately apparitions in dreams terribly troubled them,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.19: 19 for the dreams, disturbing them, did forewarned them of this,

Wisdom of Solomon 18.23: 23 For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another,

and the glories of the fathers were upon the engraving of the four rows of precious stones,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.1: 19But indignation without mercy came upon the ungodly to the end;

Wisdom of Solomon 19.2: 2 how, having changed their minds to let your people go,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.3: 3 For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.4: 4 For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.5: 5 and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.6: 6 For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.10: 10 For they still remembered the things that happened in the time of their sojourning,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.11: 11 But afterwards, they also saw a new generation race of birds,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.12: 12 For, to comfort them, quails came up for them from the sea.

Wisdom of Solomon 19.14: 14 For whereas the others didn’t receive the strangers when they came to them,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.15: 15 And not only so, but God will visit the men of Sodom another way,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.18: 18 For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.19: 19 For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters,

Wisdom of Solomon 19.21: 21 On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them,

neither did they melt the ice-like grains of ambrosial food that were apt to melt.

Wisdom of Solomon 19.22: 22 For in all things, O Lord, you magnified your people,

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, also called Ecclesiasticus, is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.

WHEREAS many and great things have been delivered to us by the law and the prophets, and by the others that have followed in their steps, for which we must give Israel the praise for instruction and wisdom; and since not only the readers need to become skillful themselves, but also those who love learning must be able to profit those who are outside, both by speaking and writing; my grandfather Jesus, having much given himself to the reading of the law, and the prophets, and the other books of our fathers, and having gained great familiarity with them, was also drawn on himself to write somewhat pertaining to instruction and wisdom, in order that those who love learning, and are devoted to these things, might make progress much more by living according to the law. You are entreated therefore to read with favor and attention, and to pardon us, if in any parts of what we have labored to interpret, we may seem to fail in some of the phrases. For things originally spoken in Hebrew don’t have the same force in them when they are translated into another language. Not only these, but the law itself, and the prophecies, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their original language. For having come into Egypt in the thirty-eighth year of Energetes the king, and having continued there some time, I found a copy giving no small instruction. I thought it therefore most necessary for me to apply some diligence and travail to translate this book, applying indeed much watchfulness and skill in that space of time to bring the book to an end and publish for them also, who in the land of their travels are desiring to learn, preparing their character in advance, so as to live according to the law.

Sirach 3.9: 9 For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children,

Sirach 6.15: 15 There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend.

Sirach 7.11: 11 Don’t laugh a man to scorn when he is in the bitterness of his soul,

Sirach 7.25: 25 Give your daughter in marriage, and you will have accomplished a great matter.

Sirach 10.24: 24 The great man, the judge, and the mighty man will be glorified.

Sirach 11.30: 30 Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the heart of a proud man.

Sirach 11.34: 34 Receive a stranger into your house, and he will distract you with arguments

Sirach 16.23: 23 He that is lacking in 5 understanding thinks upon these things;

Sirach 18.6: 6 As for the wondrous works of the Lord, it is not possible to take from them nor add to them,

Sirach 18.29: 29 They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise themselves,

Sirach 19.26: 26 There is one that does wickedly, that hangs down his head with mourning;

Sirach 19.27: 27 Bowing down his face, and making as if he were deaf of one ear:

Sirach 21.5: 5 Supplication from a poor man’s mouth reaches to the ears of 1 God,

Sirach 21.17: 17 The mouth of the prudent man will be sought for in the congregation;

Sirach 22.16: 16 Timber girded and bound into a building will not be released with shaking:

So a heart established in due season on well advised counsel will not be afraid.

So a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool will not stand against any fear.

Except it be for upbraiding, and arrogance, and disclosing of a secret, and a treacherous blow:

Sirach 23.10: 10 For as a servant that is continually scourged will not lack a bruise,

A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has 7 burned out the fire.

And he knows not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun,

Sirach 23.27: 27 And those who are left behind will know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord,

Sirach 24.23: 23 All these things are the book of the covenant of the Most High God,

Even the law which Moses commanded us for a heritage to the assemblies of Jacob.

Sirach 25.7: 7 There be nine things that I have thought of, and in my heart counted happy;

Sirach 26.6: 6 A grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous of another woman,

Sirach 27.14: 14 The talk of a man of many oaths will make the hair stand upright;

Sirach 27.21: 21 For a wound may be bound up, and after reviling there may be a reconcilement;

Sirach 27.29: 29 They that rejoice at the fall of the godly will be taken in a snare;

Sirach 29.11: 11 Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High;

Sirach 29.17: 17 And he that is of an unthankful mind will fail him that delivered him.

Sirach 32.3: 3 Speak, you that are the elder, for it becomes you, but with sound knowledge;

Sirach 34.14: 14 Whoso fears the Lord shall not be afraid, and shall not play the coward;

Sirach 34.18: 18 He that sacrifices of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is made in mockery;

Sirach 34.22: 22 As one that slays his neighbor is he that takes away his living;

Sirach 34.25: 25 He that washes himself after touching a dead body, and touches it again,

Sirach 35.16: 16 He that serves God according to his good pleasure shall be accepted,

Sirach 35.18: 18 And the Lord will not be slack, neither will he be patient toward them,

Sirach 36.12: 12 O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by your name,

Sirach 36.15: 15 Give testimony to those that were your creatures in the beginning,

Sirach 36.26: 26 For who will trust a nimble robber, that skips from city to city?

Even so who shall trust a man that has no nest, and lodges wherever he finds himself at nightfall?

Sirach 37.4: 4 There is a companion, which rejoices in the gladness of a friend,

Sirach 37.5: 5 There is a companion, which for the belly’s sake labors with his friend,

Sirach 38.1: 38Honor a physician according to your need of him with the honors due to him:

Sirach 38.12: 12 Then give place to the physician, for truly the Lord has created him;

Sirach 38.13: 13 There is a time when in their very hands is the issue for good.

That he may prosper them in giving relief and in healing for the maintenance of life.

Sirach 39.5: 5 He will apply his heart to return early to the Lord that made him,

Sirach 40.18: 18 The life of one that labors, and is content, shall be made sweet;

Sirach 41.1: 41O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions,

Sirach 41.2: 2 O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength,

Sirach 41.4: 4 And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High?

Sirach 42.14: 14 Better is the wickedness of a man than a pleasant-dealing woman,

Sirach 42.17: 17 The Lord has not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works;

Sirach 42.19: 19 Declaring the things that are past, and the things that shall be,

Sirach 42.23: 23 All these things live and remain forever in all manner of uses,

Sirach 44.22: 22 In Isaac also did he establish likewise, for Abraham his father’s sake,

Sirach 45.10: 10 With a holy garment, with gold and blue and purple, the work of the embroiderer,

With precious stones graven like a signet, in a setting of gold, the work of the jeweller,

Sirach 45.12: 12 With a crown of gold upon the mitre, 3 having graven on it, as on a signet, HOLINESS,

Sirach 45.22: 22 However in the land of the people he shall have no inheritance,

Sirach 45.25: 25 Also he made a covenant with David the son of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah;

Sirach 46.8: 8 And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved

Sirach 47.8: 8 In every work of his he gave thanks to the Holy One Most High with words of glory;

Sirach 48.24: 24 He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last;

Sirach 50.2: 2 And by him was built from the foundation the height of the double wall,

Sirach 50.4: 4 It was he that took thought for his people that they should not fall,

And the Lord’s offering in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.

Sirach 50.26: 26 They that sit upon the mountain of 7 Samaria, and the Philistines,

Sirach 50.27: 27 I have 8 written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge,

Sirach 51.3: 3 And did deliver me, according to the abundance of your mercy, and greatness of your name,

Sirach 51.15: 15 From her flower as from the ripening grape my heart delighted in her:

The book of Baruch is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. In some Bibles, Baruch chapter 6 is listed as a separate book called The Letter of Jeremiah, reflecting its separation from Baruch in some copies of the Greek Septuagint.

Baruch 1.1: 1These are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon,

Baruch 1.2: 2 in the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burned it with fire.

Baruch 1.3: 3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people that came to hear the book,

Baruch 1.4: 4 and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud.

Baruch 1.6: 6 they made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:

Baruch 1.7: 7 and they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the high priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,

Baruch 1.8: 8 at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Judah, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made,

Baruch 1.9: 9 after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.

Baruch 1.10: 10 And they said, Behold, we have sent you money; buy you therefore with the money burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

Baruch 1.11: 11 and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be 2 as the days of heaven above the earth:

Baruch 1.12: 12 and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favor in their sight.

Baruch 1.13: 13 Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us.

Baruch 1.14: 14 And you° shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly.

Baruch 1.15: 15 And you° shall say, To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Baruch 1.16: 16 and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:

Baruch 1.18: 18 and disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us:

Baruch 1.19: 19 since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not listening to his voice.

Baruch 1.20: 20 Wherefore the plagues clave to us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his servant to pronounce in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day.

Baruch 1.21: 21 Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets, whom he sent to us:

Baruch 1.22: 22 but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

Baruch 2.1: 2Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah,

Baruch 2.2: 2 to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, 1 as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses;

Baruch 2.3: 3 That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter.

Baruch 2.4: 4 Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord has scattered them.

Baruch 2.5: 5 Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not listening to his voice.

Baruch 2.6: 6 To the Lord our God belongs righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.

Baruch 2.7: 7 For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord has pronounced against us.

Baruch 2.8: 8 Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart.

Baruch 2.9: 9 Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has brought them upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us.

Baruch 2.10: 10 Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us.

Baruch 2.11: 11 And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:

Baruch 2.12: 12 O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances.

Baruch 2.13: 13 Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where you have scattered us.

Baruch 2.14: 14 Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favor in the sight of them which have led us away captive:

Baruch 2.15: 15 that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.

Baruch 2.16: 16 O Lord, look down from your holy house, and consider us: incline your ear, O Lord, and hear:

Baruch 2.17: 17 open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in 2 the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:

Baruch 2.18: 18 but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.

Baruch 2.19: 19 For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

Baruch 2.20: 20 For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, saying,

Baruch 2.21: 21 The Lord says, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.

Baruch 2.22: 22 But if you° will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,

Baruch 2.23: 23 I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant.

Baruch 2.24: 24 But we would not listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places.

Baruch 2.25: 25 And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by 3 pestilence.

Baruch 2.26: 26 And the house which is called by your name have you laid waste, as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Baruch 2.27: 27 Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all that great mercy of your,

Baruch 2.28: 28 as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying,

Baruch 2.29: 29 If you° will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.

Baruch 2.30: 30 For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart,

Baruch 2.31: 31 and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:

Baruch 2.32: 32 and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,

Baruch 2.33: 33 and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

Baruch 2.34: 34 And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.

Baruch 2.35: 35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.

Baruch 3.1: 3O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you.

Baruch 3.2: 2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you.

Baruch 3.4: 4 O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of 1 the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that didn’t listen to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us.

Baruch 3.5: 5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name now at this time.

Baruch 3.7: 7 For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, 2 to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have 3 called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.

Baruch 3.8: 8 Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.

Baruch 3.9: 9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.

Baruch 3.10: 10 How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,

Baruch 3.13: 13 For if you had walked in the way of God, you should have dwelled in peace forever.

Baruch 3.14: 14 Learn where is 5 wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

Baruch 3.15: 15 Who has found out her place? and who has come into her treasuries?

Baruch 3.16: 16 Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts that are upon the earth;

Baruch 3.17: 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end?

Baruch 3.18: 18 For those who 6 made in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out,

Baruch 3.19: 19 they are vanished and gone down to 7 the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

Baruch 3.20: 20 Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,

Baruch 3.21: 21 neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children embraced it: they are far off from 8 their way.

Baruch 3.22: 22 It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman.

Baruch 3.23: 23 The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.

Baruch 3.24: 24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!

Baruch 3.26: 26 There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, and expert in war.

Baruch 3.27: 27 God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them;

Baruch 3.28: 28 so they perished, because they had no 9 wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.

Baruch 3.29: 29 Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?

Baruch 3.30: 30 Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for choice gold?

Baruch 3.31: 31 There is none that knows her way, nor any that comprehends her path.

Baruch 3.32: 32 But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore has filled it with four-footed beasts:

Baruch 3.33: 33 he that sends forth the light, and it goes; he called it, and it obeyed him with fear:

Baruch 3.34: 34 and the stars shined in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, Here we be; they shined with gladness to him that made them.

Baruch 3.35: 35 This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him.

Baruch 3.36: 36 He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him.

Baruch 3.37: 37 Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men.

Baruch 4.1: 4This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever: all those who hold it fast are appointed to life; but such as leave it shall die.

Baruch 4.2: 2 Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk toward her shining in the presence of the light thereof.

Baruch 4.3: 3 Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.

Baruch 4.4: 4 O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.

Baruch 4.6: 6 You° were sold to the nations, but not for destruction: because you° moved God to wrath, you° were delivered to your adversaries.

Baruch 4.7: 7 For you° provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God.

Baruch 4.8: 8 You° forgot the everlasting God, that brought you up; you° grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you.

Baruch 4.9: 9 For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Listen, you° women that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;

Baruch 4.10: 10 for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.

Baruch 4.11: 11 For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.

Baruch 4.12: 12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned away from the law of God,

Baruch 4.13: 13 and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.

Baruch 4.14: 14 Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you° the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.

Baruch 4.15: 15 For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, 1 who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.

Baruch 4.16: 16 And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters.

Baruch 4.18: 18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.

Baruch 4.19: 19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.

Baruch 4.20: 20 I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.

Baruch 4.21: 21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.

Baruch 4.22: 22 For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you 2 from the Everlasting your Savior.

Baruch 4.23: 23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever.

Baruch 4.24: 24 For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from 3 our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.

Baruch 4.25: 25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon their necks.

Baruch 4.26: 26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways; they were taken away as a flock carried off by the enemies.

Baruch 4.27: 27 Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry to God: for you° shall be remembered of him that has brought these things upon you.

Baruch 4.28: 28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, return and seek him ten times more.

Baruch 4.29: 29 For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.

Baruch 4.30: 30 Be of good cheer, O Jerusalem: for he that called you by name will comfort you.

Baruch 4.31: 31 Miserable are those who afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall.

Baruch 4.32: 32 Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons.

Baruch 4.33: 33 For as she rejoiced at your fall, and was glad of your ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

Baruch 4.34: 34 And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning.

Baruch 4.35: 35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of 4 devils for a great time.

Baruch 4.36: 36 O Jerusalem, look about you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God.

Baruch 4.37: 37 Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.

Baruch 5.1: 5Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory that comes from God forever.

Baruch 5.2: 2 Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which comes from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.

Baruch 5.4: 4 For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness.

Baruch 5.5: 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you toward the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.

Baruch 5.6: 6 For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, 1 as on a royal throne.

Baruch 5.7: 7 For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.

Baruch 5.8: 8 Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God.

Baruch 5.9: 9 For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.

Baruch 6.1: 6A copy of an letter, which Jeremy sent to them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.

Baruch 6.2: 2 Because of the sins which you° have committed before God, you° shall be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

Baruch 6.3: 3 So when you° come to Babylon, you° shall remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations: and after that I will bring you out peaceably from thence.

Baruch 6.4: 4 But now shall you° see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

Baruch 6.5: 5 Beware therefore that you° in no wise become like to the strangers, neither let fear take hold upon you because of them, when you° see the multitude before them and behind them, worshiping them.

Baruch 6.7: 7 For my angel is with you, 1 and I myself do care for your 2 souls.

Baruch 6.8: 8 For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak.

Baruch 6.9: 9 And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods:

Baruch 6.10: 10 and sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves;

Baruch 6.11: 11 and will even give thereof to the common prostitutes: and they deck them as men with garments, even the gods of silver, and gods of gold, and of wood.

Baruch 6.12: 12 Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment.

Baruch 6.13: 13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them.

Baruch 6.14: 14 And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country.

Baruch 6.15: 15 He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe: but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers.

Baruch 6.17: 17 For like as a vessel that a man uses is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temples their eyes be full of dust through the feet of those who come in.

Baruch 6.18: 18 And as the courts are made sure on every side upon him that offends the king, as being committed to suffer death; even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers.

Baruch 6.19: 19 They light them candles, yes, more than for themselves, whereof they can’t see one.

Baruch 6.20: 20 They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not

Baruch 6.21: 21 when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple:

Baruch 6.22: 22 bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads; and in like manner the cats also.

Baruch 6.23: 23 Whereby you° may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.

Baruch 6.24: 24 Notwithstanding the gold wherewith they are beset to make them beautiful, except one wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for not even when they were molten did they feel it.

Baruch 6.26: 26 Having no feet, they are borne upon shoulders, whereby they declare to men that they be nothing worth.

Baruch 6.27: 27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men.

Baruch 6.28: 28 And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend; and in like manner their wives also lay up part thereof in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they will give nothing thereof.

Baruch 6.29: 29 The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods, fear them not.

Baruch 6.30: 30 For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

Baruch 6.31: 31 And in their temples the priests 3 sit on seats, having their clothes tore, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

Baruch 6.32: 32 They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

Baruch 6.33: 33 The priests also take off garments from them, and clothe their wives and children withal.

Baruch 6.34: 34 Whether it be evil that one does to them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

Baruch 6.35: 35 In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow to them, and keep it not, they will never exact it.

Baruch 6.36: 36 They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

Baruch 6.37: 37 They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, nor deliver any that is in distress.

Baruch 6.38: 38 They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

Baruch 6.39: 39 They are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain, these gods of wood, and that are overlaid with gold and with silver: those who minister to them shall be confounded.

Baruch 6.40: 40 How should a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them?

Baruch 6.41: 41 Who if they shall see one mute that can’t speak, they bring him, and entreat him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand.

Baruch 6.42: 42 Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them: for they have no understanding.

Baruch 6.43: 43 The women also with cords about them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense: but if any of them, drawn by some that passes by, lie with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

Baruch 6.44: 44 Whatsoever is done among them is false: how should a man then think or say that they are gods?

Baruch 6.45: 45 They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

Baruch 6.46: 46 And they themselves that fashioned them can never continue long; how then should the things that are fashioned by them?

Baruch 6.48: 48 For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

Baruch 6.49: 49 How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

Baruch 6.50: 50 For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

Baruch 6.51: 51 and it shall be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

Baruch 6.53: 53 For neither can they set up a king in a land, nor give rain to men.

Baruch 6.54: 54 Neither can they judge their own cause, nor 4 redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

Baruch 6.55: 55 For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood, or overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves shall be burned apart like beams.

Baruch 6.56: 56 Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies: how should a man then allow or think that they be gods?

Baruch 6.57: 57 Neither are those gods of wood, and overlaid with silver or with gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

Baruch 6.58: 58 Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong will take from them, and go away withal: neither shall they be able to help themselves.

Baruch 6.59: 59 Therefore it is better to be a king that shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for that whereof the owner shall have need, than such false gods; or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

Baruch 6.60: 60 For sun, and moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.

Baruch 6.61: 61 Likewise also the lightning when it glitters is fair to see; and after the same manner the wind also blows in every country.

Baruch 6.62: 62 And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told.

Baruch 6.63: 63 And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded: but these are to be likened to them neither in show nor power.

Baruch 6.64: 64 Wherefore a man should neither think nor say that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good to men.

Baruch 6.67: 67 neither can they show signs in the heavens among the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

Baruch 6.68: 68 The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves.

Baruch 6.69: 69 In no wise then is it manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

Baruch 6.70: 70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver.

Baruch 6.71: 71 Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark.

Baruch 6.72: 72 And you° shall know them to be no gods by the 5 bright purple that rots upon them: And they themselves afterward shall be consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.

Baruch 6.73: 73 Better therefore is the just man that has none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.

The First Book of the Maccabees is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.

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 1.9: 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 1.13: 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 10 the hundred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a 11 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 12 after 13 two full years the king sent a chief collector of tribute to the cities of Judah, and he came to Jerusalem with a 14 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, 15 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 1.47: 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 16 the hundred and forty and fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the 17 altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they built idol 18 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 19 altar of God.

1 Maccabees 1.60: 60 And 20 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 21 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 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 2.5: 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,

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 2.9: 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 2.14: 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 2.36: 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 2.56: 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 2.70: 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 3.1: 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 3.22: 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 3.34: 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 4.1: 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 4.5: 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 4.17: 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 4.23: 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 4.26: 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 5.1: 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 5.65: 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 10 Philistines, and he went through 11 Samaria.

1 Maccabees 5.67: 67 In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as 12 he went out to battle unadvisedly.

1 Maccabees 5.68: 68 And Judas turned toward Azotus, to the land of the 13 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 6.1: 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 7.1: 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 7.18: 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 7.22: 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 10 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 11 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 12 they ordained to keep this day year by year, to wit, the thirteenth day of Adar.

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 8.22: 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 9.1: 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 9.19: 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 9.22: 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 9.33: 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 9.52: 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 9.57: 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 9.60: 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 10.1: 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 10.19: 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 10.26: 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 10.29: 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 10 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 battle11.

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 11.1: 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 11.12: 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 11.33: 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 12.1: 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 12.13: 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 13.1: 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 13.14: 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 13.25: 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 14.1: 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 10 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 11 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 15.1: 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;

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 15.17: 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 15.25: 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.

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.

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 Maccabees 16.1: 16And John went up from Gazara, and told Simon his father what Cendebaeus was doing.

1 Maccabees 16.2: 2 And Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, I and my kindred and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, that we should deliver Israel oftentimes.

1 Maccabees 16.3: 3 But now I am old, and you° moreover, by his mercy, are of a sufficient age: be you° instead of me and my brother, and go forth and fight for our nation; but let the help which is from heaven be with you.

1 Maccabees 16.4: 4 And he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and horsemen, and they went against Cendebaeus, and slept at Modin.

1 Maccabees 16.5: 5 And rising up in the morning, they went into the plain, and, behold, a great army came to meet them, of footmen and horsemen: and there was a brook between them.

1 Maccabees 16.6: 6 And he encamped near them, he and his people: and he saw that the people were afraid to pass over the brook, and he passed over first, and the men saw him, and passed over after him.

1 Maccabees 16.7: 7 And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the enemies’ horsemen were exceedingly many.

1 Maccabees 16.8: 8 And they sounded with the trumpets; and Cendebaeus and his army were put to the rout, and there fell of them many wounded to death, but those who were left fled to the stronghold:

1 Maccabees 16.9: 9 at that time was Judas John’s brother wounded: but John pursued after them, till he came to Kidron, which Cendebaeus had built;

1 Maccabees 16.10: 10 and they fled to the towers that are in the fields of Azotus; and he burned it with fire; and there fell of them about two thousand men. And he returned into Judea in peace.

1 Maccabees 16.11: 11 And Ptolemy the son of Abubus had been appointed captain for the plain of Jericho, and he had much silver and gold;

1 Maccabees 16.13: 13 And his heart was lifted up, and he was minded to make himself master of the country, and he took counsel deceitfully against Simon and his sons, to make away with them.

1 Maccabees 16.14: 14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; and he went down to Jericho, himself and Mattathias and Judas his sons, in 1 the hundred and seventy and seventh year, in the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat:

1 Maccabees 16.15: 15 and the son of Abubus received them deceitfully into the little stronghold that is called Dok, which he had built, and made them a great banquet, and hid men there.

1 Maccabees 16.16: 16 And when Simon and his sons had drunk freely, Ptolemy and his men rose up, and took their arms, and came in upon Simon into the banqueting place, and killed him, and his two sons, and certain of his servants.

1 Maccabees 16.17: 17 And he committed a great iniquity, and recompensed evil for good.

1 Maccabees 16.18: 18 And Ptolemy wrote these things, and sent to the king, that he should send him forces to aid him, and should deliver him their country and the cities.

1 Maccabees 16.19: 19 And he sent others to Gazara to make away with John: and to the captains of thousands he sent letters to come to him, that he might give them silver and gold and gifts.

1 Maccabees 16.20: 20 And others he sent to take possession of Jerusalem, and the mount of the temple.

1 Maccabees 16.21: 21 And one ran before to Gazara, and told John that his father and kindred were perished, and he has sent to kill you also.

1 Maccabees 16.22: 22 And when he heard, he was sore amazed; and he laid hands on the men that came to destroy him, and killed them; for he perceived that they were seeking to destroy him.

1 Maccabees 16.23: 23 And the rest of the acts of John, and of his wars, and of his valiant deeds which he did, and of the building of the walls which he built, and of his doings,

1 Maccabees 16.24: 24 behold, they are written in the 2 chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father.

The Second Book of the Maccabees is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.

2 Maccabees 1.1: 1The kindred, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greeting to the kindred, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, and wish them good peace:

2 Maccabees 1.2: 2 and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants;

2 Maccabees 1.3: 3 and give you all a heart to worship him and do his 1 pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;

2 Maccabees 1.4: 4 and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,

2 Maccabees 1.5: 5 and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time.

2 Maccabees 1.7: 7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have already written to you in the suffering and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom,

2 Maccabees 1.8: 8 and set the 2 gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal offering, and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the 3 show bread.

2 Maccabees 1.9: 9 And now see that you° keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev.

THEY that are in Jerusalem and those who are in Judea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health.

2 Maccabees 1.11: 11 Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.

2 Maccabees 1.12: 12 For himself cast forth into Persia those who arrayed themselves against us in the holy city.

2 Maccabees 1.13: 13 For when the prince was come there, and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests.

2 Maccabees 1.14: 14 For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his 4 Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry.

2 Maccabees 1.15: 15 And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set 5 the treasures forth, and he was come there with a small company within the wall of the precincts, they shut to the temple when Antiochus was come in:

2 Maccabees 1.16: 16 and opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and 6 struck down the prince, and they hewed 7 him and his company in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without.

2 Maccabees 1.17: 17 Blessed be our God in all things, who gave for a prey those who had committed impiety.

2 Maccabees 1.18: 18 Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the month Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that 8 you° also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and a memorial of the fire which was given when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar.

2 Maccabees 1.19: 19 For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

2 Maccabees 1.20: 20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests that hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick water,

2 Maccabees 1.21: 21 he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring to him: and when 9 the sacrifices had been offered on the altar, Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with the water both the wood and the things laid thereupon.

2 Maccabees 1.22: 22 And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clouds, there was kindled a great blaze, so that all men marveled.

2 Maccabees 1.23: 23 And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all others, Jonathan leading and the rest answering, as Nehemiah did.

O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are terrible and strong and righteous and merciful, who alone are King and gracious,

2 Maccabees 1.25: 25 who alone supply every need, who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers your chosen, and did sanctify them:

2 Maccabees 1.26: 26 accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it.

2 Maccabees 1.27: 27 Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God.

2 Maccabees 1.28: 28 Torment those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us.

2 Maccabees 1.31: 31 And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded 10 to pour on great stones the water that was left.

2 Maccabees 1.32: 32 And when this was done, a flame was kindled; 11 but when the light from the altar 12 shone near it, all was consumed.

2 Maccabees 1.33: 33 And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared the water, wherewith also Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice,

2 Maccabees 1.34: 34 then the king, inclosing the place, made it sacred, after he had proved the matter.

2 Maccabees 1.35: 35 And when the king would show favor to any, he would take from them many presents and give them some of this water.

2 Maccabees 1.36: 36 And Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cleansing; but most men call it Nephthai.

2 Maccabees 2.1: 2It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take of the fire, as has been signified above:

2 Maccabees 2.2: 2 and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord, neither be led astray in their minds, when they saw images of gold and silver, and the adornment thereof.

2 Maccabees 2.3: 3 And with other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their heart.

2 Maccabees 2.4: 4 And it was contained in the writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, 1 when he went forth into the mountain where Moses went up and saw the heritage of God.

2 Maccabees 2.5: 5 And Jeremiah came and found 2 a chamber in the rock, and there he brought in the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense; and he made fast the door.

2 Maccabees 2.6: 6 And some of those that followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it.

2 Maccabees 2.7: 7 But when Jeremiah perceived it, he blamed them, saying, Yes and the place shall be unknown until God 3 gather the people again together, and mercy come:

2 Maccabees 2.8: 8 and then shall the Lord disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord shall be seen, and the 4 cloud.

As also it was showed with Moses; as also Solomon implored that the place might be consecrated greatly,

2 Maccabees 2.9: 9 and it was also declared that he, having wisdom, offered a sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple; so we would have it now.

2 Maccabees 2.10: 10 As Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down out of heaven and consumed the sacrifice, even so prayed Solomon also, and the fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings;

2 Maccabees 2.11: 11 5(and Moses said, Because the sin offering had not been eaten, it was consumed in like manner with the rest;)

2 Maccabees 2.13: 13 And the same things were related 6 both in the public archives and in 7 the records that concern Nehemiah; and how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the books of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts.

2 Maccabees 2.14: 14 And in like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those writings that had been scattered by reason of the war that befell, and they are still with us.

2 Maccabees 2.15: 15 If therefore you° have need thereof, send some to fetch them to you.

2 Maccabees 2.16: 16 Seeing then that we are about to keep the purification, we write to you; you° will therefore do well if you° keep the days.

2 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the hallowing,

2 Maccabees 2.18: 18 even as he promised through the law,— in God have we hope, that he will quickly have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of 8 all the earth to the holy place: for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place.

2 Maccabees 2.19: 19 Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his kindred, and the purification of the 9 great temple, and the dedication of the altar,

2 Maccabees 2.20: 20 and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son,

2 Maccabees 2.21: 21 and the manifestations that came from heaven to those that vied with one another in manful deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they 10 rescued the whole country, and chased the barbarous multitudes,

2 Maccabees 2.22: 22 and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and restored the laws which were like to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became 11 gracious to them with all forbearance:

2 Maccabees 2.23: 23 these things, I say, which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one work.

2 Maccabees 2.24: 24 For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the 12 difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter,

2 Maccabees 2.25: 25 we were careful that they who choose to read may be attracted, and that they who wish well to our cause may find it easy to recall 13 what we have written, and that all readers may have profit.

2 Maccabees 2.26: 26 And although to us, who have taken upon us the painful labor of the abridgement, the task is not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching

2 Maccabees 2.27: 27 (even as it is no light thing to him that prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others); yet for the sake of the gratitude of the many we will gladly endure the painful labor,

2 Maccabees 2.28: 28 leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again 14 having no strength to 15 fill in the outlines of our abridgement.

2 Maccabees 2.29: 29 For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole 16 structure, and again he that undertakes to 17 decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for the adorning thereof; even so I think it is also with us.

2 Maccabees 2.30: 30 To occupy the ground, and to 18 indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, becomes the first author of the history:

2 Maccabees 2.31: 31 but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form.

2 Maccabees 2.32: 32 Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding thus much to that which has been already 19 said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history itself.

2 Maccabees 3.1: 3WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,

2 Maccabees 3.2: 2 it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honor the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents;

2 Maccabees 3.3: 3 insomuch that even Seleucus the king of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices.

2 Maccabees 3.4: 4 But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the 1 ruling of the market in the city.

2 Maccabees 3.5: 5 And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius the son of 2 Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia:

2 Maccabees 3.6: 6 and he brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power.

2 Maccabees 3.7: 7 And when Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money whereof he had been told; and the king appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a commandment to accomplish the removal of the aforesaid money.

2 Maccabees 3.8: 8 So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under a color of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose.

2 Maccabees 3.9: 9 And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest 3 of the city, he laid before 4 them an account of the information which had been given him, and declared wherefore he was come; and he inquired if in truth these things were so.

2 Maccabees 3.10: 10 And the high priest explained to him that there were in the treasury deposits of widows and orphans,

2 Maccabees 3.11: 11 and moreover some money belonging to Hyrcanus the son of Tobias, a man in very high place, 5 and that the case was not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold;

2 Maccabees 3.12: 12 and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world.

2 Maccabees 3.13: 13 But 6 Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandments given him, said that in any case this money must be confiscated for the king’s treasury.

2 Maccabees 3.14: 14 So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the inquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city.

2 Maccabees 3.15: 15 And the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and looking toward heaven, called upon him that gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these treasures safe for those that had deposited them.

2 Maccabees 3.16: 16 And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his color betrayed the distress of his soul.

2 Maccabees 3.17: 17 For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked upon him.

2 Maccabees 3.18: 18 And those who were in the houses rushed flocking out to make a universal supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

2 Maccabees 3.19: 19 And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ward ran together, some to the 7 gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows.

2 Maccabees 3.20: 20 And all, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, made their solemn supplication.

2 Maccabees 3.21: 21 Then it would have pitied a man to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the expectation of the high priest in his sore distress.

2 Maccabees 3.22: 22 While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted to them 8 safe and sure for those that had entrusted them,

2 Maccabees 3.24: 24 But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great 9 apparition, so that all that had presumed to come in with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted and were sore afraid.

2 Maccabees 3.25: 25 For there was seen by them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete armor of gold.

2 Maccabees 3.26: 26 Two other also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes.

2 Maccabees 3.27: 27 And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, his guards caught him up and put him into a litter,

2 Maccabees 3.28: 28 and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.

2 Maccabees 3.29: 29 And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,

2 Maccabees 3.30: 30 they blessed the Lord, that made marvelous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared.

2 Maccabees 3.31: 31 But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp.

2 Maccabees 3.32: 32 And the high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery toward Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the deliverance of the man.

2 Maccabees 3.33: 33 But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life;

2 Maccabees 3.34: 34 and do you, since you have been scourged from heaven, publish to all men the sovereign majesty of God. And when they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight.

2 Maccabees 3.35: 35 So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed 10 great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king.

2 Maccabees 3.36: 36 And he testified to all men the works of the 11 great God which he had seen with his eyes.

2 Maccabees 3.37: 37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, what manner of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

2 Maccabees 3.38: 38 If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you shall receive him back well scourged, if he even escape with his life; because of a truth there is about the place a power of God.

2 Maccabees 3.39: 39 For he that has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes upon that place, and helps it; and those who come to hurt it he strikes and destroys.

2 Maccabees 3.40: 40 And such was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury.

2 Maccabees 4.1: 4But the aforesaid Simon, he who had given information of the money, and had betrayed his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus, and made himself the author of these evils.

2 Maccabees 4.2: 2 And him that was the benefactor of the city, and the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws, he dared to call a conspirator against the state.

2 Maccabees 4.3: 3 But when the growing enmity between them waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of 1 Simon’s trusted followers,

2 Maccabees 4.4: 4 Onias, seeing the 2 danger of the contention, and that 3 Apollonius the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,

2 Maccabees 4.5: 5 betook himself to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the 4 people, both public and private;

2 Maccabees 4.6: 6 for he saw that without the king’s providence it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness.

2 Maccabees 4.7: 7 But when Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted his brother in the high priesthood,

2 Maccabees 4.8: 8 having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and out of another fund eighty talents;

2 Maccabees 4.9: 9 and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him 5 through the king’s authority to set him up a Greek place of exercise and form a body of youths to be trained therein, and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.

2 Maccabees 4.10: 10 And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion.

2 Maccabees 4.11: 11 And setting aside the royal ordinances of special favor to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the ambassage to the Romans for friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful modes of life, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law:

2 Maccabees 4.12: 12 for he eagerly established a Greek place of exercise under the citadel itself; and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek cap.

2 Maccabees 4.13: 13 And thus there was an extreme of Greek fashions, and an advance of an alien religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly man and no high priest;

2 Maccabees 4.14: 14 so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar: but despising the sanctuary, and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to 6 enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the palaestra, after the summons 7 of the discus;

2 Maccabees 4.15: 15 making of no account the honors of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks best of all.

2 Maccabees 4.16: 16 By reason whereof sore calamity beset them; and the men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these they had to be their enemies and to punish them.

2 Maccabees 4.17: 17 For it is not a light thing to do impiously against the laws of God: but 8 these things the time following shall declare.

2 Maccabees 4.18: 18 Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present,

2 Maccabees 4.19: 19 the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, 9 as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for any sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to 10 expend on another charge.

2 Maccabees 4.20: 20 And though in the purpose of the sender this money was for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of 11 present circumstances it went to the equipment of the galleys.

2 Maccabees 4.21: 21 Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the 12 enthronement of Ptolemy Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that Ptolemy had shown himself ill affected toward the state, took thought for the security of his realm; wherefore, going by sea to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem.

2 Maccabees 4.22: 22 And being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. This done, he afterward led his army down into Phoenicia.

2 Maccabees 4.23: 23 Now after a space of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money to the king, and to 13 make reports concerning some necessary matters.

2 Maccabees 4.24: 24 But he being commended to the king, and 14 having glorified 15 himself 16 by the display of his authority, got the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

2 Maccabees 4.25: 25 And having received the royal mandates he came to Jerusalem, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

2 Maccabees 4.26: 26 And whereas Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites,

2 Maccabees 4.27: 27 Menelaus had possession of the office: but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing 17 was duly paid, and that though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it

2 Maccabees 4.28: 28 (for to him appertained the gathering of the revenues); for which cause they were both called by the king to his presence.

2 Maccabees 4.29: 29 And Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his 18 deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was over the Cyprians.

2 Maccabees 4.30: 30 Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.

2 Maccabees 4.31: 31 The king therefore came to Cilicia in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his 19 deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank.

2 Maccabees 4.32: 32 And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favorable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other vessels also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about.

2 Maccabees 4.33: 33 And when Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.

2 Maccabees 4.34: 34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him 20 to kill Onias. And coming to Onias, and 21 being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, Andronicus gave him his right hand with oaths of fidelity, and, though he was suspected by him, so persuaded him to come forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith he 22 despatched him without regard of justice.

2 Maccabees 4.35: 35 For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man.

2 Maccabees 4.36: 36 And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were 23 in the city pleaded before him against Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.

2 Maccabees 4.37: 37 Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead;

2 Maccabees 4.38: 38 and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and 24 tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved.

2 Maccabees 4.39: 39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the bruit thereof was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed.

2 Maccabees 4.40: 40 And when the multitudes were rising against him, and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began the conflict, one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading the attack.

2 Maccabees 4.41: 41 But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him;

2 Maccabees 4.42: 42 by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury.

2 Maccabees 4.43: 43 But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

2 Maccabees 4.44: 44 And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him.

2 Maccabees 4.45: 45 But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.

2 Maccabees 4.46: 46 Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:

2 Maccabees 4.47: 47 and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.

2 Maccabees 4.48: 48 Soon then did those who were spokesmen for the city and the families of Israel and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty.

2 Maccabees 4.49: 49 For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.

2 Maccabees 4.50: 50 But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of those who were in power remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, 25 as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens.

2 Maccabees 5.1: 5Now about this time Antiochus made his second inroad into Egypt.

2 Maccabees 5.2: 2 And it so befell that throughout all the city, for the space of almost forty days, there appeared in the midst of the sky horsemen in swift motion, wearing robes inwrought with gold and carrying spears, equipped in troops for battle;

2 Maccabees 5.3: 3 and drawing of swords; and on the other side squadrons of horse in array; and encounters and 1 pursuits of both armies; and shaking of shields, and multitudes of lances, and casting of darts, and flashing of golden trappings, and girding on of all sorts of armor.

2 Maccabees 5.4: 4 Wherefore all men implored that the 2 vision might have been given for good.

2 Maccabees 5.5: 5 But when a false rumor had arisen that Antiochus was deceased, Jason took not less than a thousand men, and suddenly 3 made an assault upon the city; and those who were upon the wall being routed, and the city being now at length well near taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.

2 Maccabees 5.6: 6 But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen.

2 Maccabees 5.7: 7 The office however he didn’t get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

2 Maccabees 5.8: 8 At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been 4 shut up at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as an apostate from the laws, and held in abomination as the butcher of his country and his fellow-citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt;

2 Maccabees 5.9: 9 and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished himself in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter there because they were 5 near of kin;

2 Maccabees 5.10: 10 and he that had cast out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him, nor had he any funeral at all, or place in the sepulchre of his fathers.

2 Maccabees 5.11: 11 Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

2 Maccabees 5.12: 12 and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses;

2 Maccabees 5.13: 13 and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.

2 Maccabees 5.14: 14 And in all the three days of the slaughter there were destroyed fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain.

2 Maccabees 5.15: 15 But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country),

2 Maccabees 5.16: 16 even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honor of the place.

2 Maccabees 5.17: 17 And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was then turned away from the place.

2 Maccabees 5.18: 18 But had it not so been that they were already bound by many sins, this man, even as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus the king to view the treasury, would, so soon as he pressed forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed.

2 Maccabees 5.19: 19 However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake.

2 Maccabees 5.20: 20 Wherefore also the place itself, having shared in the calamities that befell the nation, did afterward share in its benefits; and the place which was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was, at the reconciliation of the great Sovereign, restored again with all glory.

2 Maccabees 5.21: 21 As for Antiochus, when he had carried away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot, because his heart was lifted up.

2 Maccabees 5.22: 22 And moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him that set him there;

2 Maccabees 5.23: 23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. And having a malicious mind 6 toward the Jews 7 whom he had made his citizens,

2 Maccabees 5.24: 24 he sent that 8 lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to kill all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men.

2 Maccabees 5.25: 25 And he coming to Jerusalem, and playing the man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade in arms.

2 Maccabees 5.26: 26 And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes.

2 Maccabees 5.27: 27 But Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains after the manner of wild beasts; and they continued feeding on 9 such poor herbs as grew there, that they might not be partakers of the threatened pollution.

2 Maccabees 6.1: 6And not long after this the king sent forth 1 an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God;

2 Maccabees 6.2: 2 and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of 2 Jupiter Olympius, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of 3 Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they 4 were that lived in the place.

2 Maccabees 6.3: 3 But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil.

2 Maccabees 6.4: 4 For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who 5 dallied with prostitutes, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting;

2 Maccabees 6.5: 5 and 6 the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws.

2 Maccabees 6.6: 6 And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.

2 Maccabees 6.7: 7 And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the 7 feast of Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honor of 8 Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy.

2 Maccabees 6.8: 8 A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices;

2 Maccabees 6.9: 9 and that they should kill such as didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see:

2 Maccabees 6.10: 10 for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall.

2 Maccabees 6.11: 11 And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burned together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honor of that most solemn day.

2 Maccabees 6.12: 12 I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but account that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race.

2 Maccabees 6.13: 13 For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but immediately meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence.

2 Maccabees 6.14: 14 For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with patience forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of their sins; but not so judged he as touching us,

2 Maccabees 6.15: 15 that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, 9 when we be come to the 10 height of our sins.

2 Maccabees 6.16: 16 Wherefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, yet does he not forsake his own people.

2 Maccabees 6.17: 17 However let this that we have spoken suffice to put you in remembrance; but after these few words we must come to the narrative.

2 Maccabees 6.18: 18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.

2 Maccabees 6.19: 19 But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth the flesh,

2 Maccabees 6.20: 20 coming forward as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.

2 Maccabees 6.21: 21 But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was befitting for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king;

2 Maccabees 6.22: 22 that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly.

2 Maccabees 6.23: 23 But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and the gray hairs 11 which he had reached with honor, and his excellent 12 education from a child, 13 or rather that became the holy 14 laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him to Hades.

2 Maccabees 6.24: 24 For it becomes not our years to dissemble, said he, that through this many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over to an alien religion;

2 Maccabees 6.25: 25 and so they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, 15 and thus I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age.

2 Maccabees 6.26: 26 For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead.

2 Maccabees 6.27: 27 Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age,

2 Maccabees 6.28: 28 and 16 leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture.

2 Maccabees 6.29: 29 17 And when they changed the good they will bare him a little before into ill will, because 18 these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,

2 Maccabees 6.30: 30 and when he was at the point to die with the 19 stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.

2 Maccabees 6.31: 31 So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation.

2 Maccabees 7.1: 7And it came to pass that seven kindred also with their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh.

2 Maccabees 7.2: 2 But one of them made himself the spokesman and said, What would you ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers.

2 Maccabees 7.3: 3 And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and caldrons:

2 Maccabees 7.4: 4 and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his kindred and his mother looking on.

2 Maccabees 7.5: 5 And when he was utterly 1 maimed, the king commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapor of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus:

2 Maccabees 7.6: 6 The Lord God sees, and in truth is 2 entreated for us, as Moses declared in 3 his song, which witnesses against the people to their faces, saying, And he shall be 4 entreated for his servants.

2 Maccabees 7.7: 7 And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, Wilt you eat, before your body be punished in every limb?

2 Maccabees 7.8: 8 But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, No. Wherefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done.

2 Maccabees 7.9: 9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said, You, miscreant, do release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life.

2 Maccabees 7.10: 10 And after him was the third made a mocking-stock. And when he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched forth his hands courageously,

2 Maccabees 7.11: 11 and nobly said, From heaven I possess these; and for his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt; and from him I hope to receive these back again:

2 Maccabees 7.12: 12 insomuch that the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

2 Maccabees 7.13: 13 And when he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in like manner.

2 Maccabees 7.14: 14 And being come near to death he said thus: It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hopes which are given by God, that we shall be raised up again by him; for as for you, you shall have no resurrection to life.

2 Maccabees 7.15: 15 And next after him they brought the fifth, and shamefully handled him.

2 Maccabees 7.16: 16 But he looked toward 5 the king and said, Because you have authority among men, though you are yourself corruptible, you do what you will; yet think not that our race has been forsaken of God;

2 Maccabees 7.17: 17 but hold you on your way, and behold his sovereign majesty, how it will torture you and your seed.

2 Maccabees 7.18: 18 And after him they brought the sixth. And when he was at the point to die he said, Be not vainly deceived, for we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God: marvelous things are come to pass;

2 Maccabees 7.19: 19 but think not you that you shall be unpunished, having assayed to fight against God.

2 Maccabees 7.20: 20 But above all was the mother marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she looked on seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bare the sight with a good courage for the hopes that she had set on the Lord.

2 Maccabees 7.21: 21 And she exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble temper and stirring up her womanish thought with manly passion, saying to them,

2 Maccabees 7.22: 22 I know not how you° came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your 6 spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you.

2 Maccabees 7.23: 23 Therefore the Creator of the world, who fashioned the 7 generation of man and devised the 8 generation of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your 9 spirit and your life, as you° now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws’ sake.

2 Maccabees 7.24: 24 But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and 10 raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the customs of his fathers, and that he would take him for his 11 Friend and entrust him with affairs.

2 Maccabees 7.25: 25 But when the young man would in no wise give heed, the king called to him his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the lad to save himself.

2 Maccabees 7.26: 26 And when he had exhorted her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son.

2 Maccabees 7.27: 27 But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke thus in the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried you nine months in my womb, and gave you suck three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you.

2 Maccabees 7.28: 28 I beseech you, my child, to lift your eyes to the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this wise comes into being.

2 Maccabees 7.29: 29 Don’t be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your kindred, accept your death, that in the mercy of God I may receive you again with your kindred.

2 Maccabees 7.30: 30 But before she had yet ended speaking, the young man said, Whom wait you° for? I obey not the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses.

2 Maccabees 7.31: 31 But you, that have devised all manner of evil against the Hebrews, shall in no wise escape the hands of God.

2 Maccabees 7.33: 33 and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants.

2 Maccabees 7.34: 34 But you, O unholy man and of all most vile, be not vainly lifted up in your wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising your hand against the heavenly children;

2 Maccabees 7.35: 35 For not yet have you escaped the judgement of the Almighty God that sees all things.

2 Maccabees 7.36: 36 For these our kindred, having endured a 12 short pain that brings everlasting life, have now 13 died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogance.

2 Maccabees 7.37: 37 But I, as my kindred, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become 14 gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God;

2 Maccabees 7.38: 38 and that in me and my kindred 15 you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race.

2 Maccabees 7.39: 39 But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.

2 Maccabees 7.40: 40 So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord.

2 Maccabees 7.42: 42 Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the enforcement of sacrificial feasts and the king’s exceeding barbarities.

2 Maccabees 8.1: 8But Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way privily into the villages, called to them their kinsfolk; and taking to them such as had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together as many as six thousand.

2 Maccabees 8.2: 2 And they called upon the Lord, beseeching him to look upon the people that was oppressed by all; and to have compassion on the sanctuary also that had been profaned by the ungodly men;

2 Maccabees 8.3: 3 and to have pity on the city also that was suffering ruin and ready to be made even even with the ground; and to listen to the blood that cried to him;

2 Maccabees 8.4: 4 and to remember also the lawless 1 slaughter of the innocent infants, and 2 the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to show his hatred of wickedness.

2 Maccabees 8.5: 5 And when Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for that the wrath of the Lord was turned into pity.

2 Maccabees 8.6: 6 3 And coming unawares he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies,

2 Maccabees 8.7: 7 he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. And his courage was loudly talked of everywhere.

2 Maccabees 8.8: 8 But when Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause.

2 Maccabees 8.9: 9 And Ptolemy quickly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king’s 4 Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war.

2 Maccabees 8.10: 10 And Nicanor 5 undertook by the sale of the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans.

2 Maccabees 8.11: 11 And immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish 6 slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten 7 slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty.

2 Maccabees 8.12: 12 But tidings came to Judas concerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army,

2 Maccabees 8.13: 13 those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God 8 ran away and left the country.

2 Maccabees 8.14: 14 And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold as slaves by the impious Nicanor or ever he met them;

2 Maccabees 8.15: 15 and this, if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name.

2 Maccabees 8.16: 16 And Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be stricken with dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them; but to contend nobly,

2 Maccabees 8.17: 17 setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors.

2 Maccabees 8.18: 18 For they, said he, trust to arms, and withal to deeds of daring; but we trust on the almighty God, since he is able at a beck to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world.

2 Maccabees 8.19: 19 And moreover he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both the help given in the days of Sennacherib, how that a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished,

2 Maccabees 8.20: 20 and the help given in the land of Babylon, even the battle that was fought against the 9 Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, and how that, the Macedonians being hard pressed, the 10 six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help which they had from heaven, and took great booty.

2 Maccabees 8.21: 21 And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts;

2 Maccabees 8.22: 22 11 appointing his kindred to be with himself leaders of the several bands, to wit, Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, giving each the command of fifteen hundred men,

2 Maccabees 8.23: 23 and moreover Eleazer also: then, having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, THE HELP OF GOD, leading the first band himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.

2 Maccabees 8.24: 24 And, since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed of the enemy above nine thousand, and wounded and 12 disabled the more part of Nicanor’s army, and compelled all to flee:

2 Maccabees 8.25: 25 and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some 13 distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day;

2 Maccabees 8.26: 26 for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far.

2 Maccabees 8.27: 27 14 And when they had gathered 15 the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they occupied themselves about the Sabbath, blessing and thanking the Lord exceedingly, who had saved them to this day, for that he had caused a beginning of mercy to distil upon them.

2 Maccabees 8.28: 28 And after the Sabbath, when they had given of the spoils to the 16 maimed, and to the widows and orphans, the residue they distributed among themselves and their children.

2 Maccabees 8.29: 29 And when they had accomplished these things, and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.

2 Maccabees 8.30: 30 And having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed above twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of strongholds exceedingly high, and divided very much plunder, giving the 17 maimed and orphans and widows, and moreover the aged also, an equal share with themselves.

2 Maccabees 8.31: 31 18 And when they had gathered the arms 19 of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.

2 Maccabees 8.32: 32 And they killed the 20 phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt.

2 Maccabees 8.33: 33 21 And as they kept the feast of victory in the 22 city of their fathers, they burned those that had set the sacred 23 gates on fire, and among them Callisthenes, who had fled into 24 an outhouse; and so they received the meet reward of their impiety.

2 Maccabees 8.34: 34 And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews for slaves,

2 Maccabees 8.35: 35 being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and passing through the midland, 25 shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, 26 having, as he thought, had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed.

2 Maccabees 8.36: 36 And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that 27 because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.

2 Maccabees 9.1: 9Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned 1 in disorder from the region of Persia.

2 Maccabees 9.2: 2 For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob 2 a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and 3 Antiochus and his men turned to make defense with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace.

2 Maccabees 9.3: 3 And while he was at Ecbatana, news was brought him what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus.

2 Maccabees 9.4: 4 And being lifted up 4 by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evil-doing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, the judgement from heaven even now accompanying him, he gave order to his charioteer to drive without ceasing and despatch the journey; for thus he arrogantly spoke: I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews, when I come there.

2 Maccabees 9.5: 5 But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a 5 fatal and invisible stroke; and as soon as he had ceased speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, and bitter torments of the inner parts;

2 Maccabees 9.6: 6 and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings.

2 Maccabees 9.7: 7 But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; no, still more was he filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body.

2 Maccabees 9.8: 8 And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, 6 showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s;

2 Maccabees 9.9: 9 so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption.

2 Maccabees 9.10: 10 And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.

2 Maccabees 9.11: 11 Therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogance, being broken in spirit, and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.

2 Maccabees 9.12: 12 And when he himself could not stand his own smell, he said these words: It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not 7 be minded arrogantly.

2 Maccabees 9.13: 13 And the vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying on this wise:

2 Maccabees 9.14: 14 that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to 8 make it a common graveyard, he would declare free;

2 Maccabees 9.15: 15 and as touching the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the beasts with their infants, for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens;

2 Maccabees 9.16: 16 and the holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with goodliest offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices;

2 Maccabees 9.17: 17 and, beside all this, that he would become a Jew, and would visit every inhabited place, publishing abroad the might of God.

2 Maccabees 9.18: 18 But when his sufferings did in no wise cease, for the judgement of God had come upon him in righteousness, having given up all hope of himself, he wrote to the Jews the letter written below, having the nature of a supplication, to this effect:

2 Maccabees 9.19: 19 To the worthy Jews, his fellow-citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity.

2 Maccabees 9.20: 20 9 May you° and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven,

2 Maccabees 9.21: 21 I remembered with affection your honor and good will toward me. Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all,

2 Maccabees 9.22: 22 not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness.

2 Maccabees 9.23: 23 But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,

2 Maccabees 9.24: 24 to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they that remained in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled;

2 Maccabees 9.25: 25 and, beside all this, observing how that the princes that are borderers and neighbors to my kingdom watch opportunities, and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often committed and commended to most of you, when I was hastening to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written below.

2 Maccabees 9.26: 26 I exhort you therefore and beseech you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve each of you your present good will toward me and my son.

2 Maccabees 9.27: 27 For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence.

2 Maccabees 9.28: 28 So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life among the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land.

2 Maccabees 9.29: 29 And Philip his foster brother conveyed the body home; and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.

2 Maccabees 10.1: 10And Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city;

2 Maccabees 10.2: 2 and they pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the aliens, and also the walls of sacred inclosures.

2 Maccabees 10.3: 3 And having cleansed the sanctuary they made another altar of sacrifice; and 1 striking stones and taking fire out of them, they offered sacrifices, after they had ceased for two years, and burned incense, and lighted lamps, and set forth the show bread.

2 Maccabees 10.4: 4 And when they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such evils; but that, if ever they should sin, they might be chastened by him with forbearance, and not be delivered to blaspheming and barbarous heathen.

2 Maccabees 10.5: 5 Now on the same day that the sanctuary was profaned by aliens, upon that very day did it come to pass that the cleansing of the sanctuary was made, even on the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Chislev.

2 Maccabees 10.6: 6 And they kept eight days with gladness in the manner of the feast of tabernacles, remembering how that 2 not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves after the manner of wild beasts.

2 Maccabees 10.7: 7 Wherefore bearing wands wreathed with leaves, and fair boughs, and palms also, they offered up hymns of thanksgiving to him that had prosperously brought to pass the cleansing of his own place.

2 Maccabees 10.8: 8 They ordained also with a common statute and decree, for all the nation of the Jews, that they should keep these days every year.

2 Maccabees 10.9: 9 And 3 such was the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes.

2 Maccabees 10.10: 10 But now will we declare what came to pass under Antiochus named 4 Eupator, who proved himself a true son of that ungodly man, and will gather up briefly the 5 successive evils of the wars.

2 Maccabees 10.11: 11 For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to be chancellor, and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia.

2 Maccabees 10.12: 12 For Ptolemy that was called Macron, setting an example of observing justice toward the Jews because of the wrong that had been done to them, endeavored to 6 conduct his dealings with them on peaceful terms.

2 Maccabees 10.13: 13 Whereupon being accused by the king’s 7 Friends before Eupator, and hearing himself called traitor at every turn, because he had abandoned Cyprus which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had withdrawn himself to Antiochus called Epiphanes, and 8 failing to uphold the honor of his office, he took poison and made away with himself.

2 Maccabees 10.14: 14 But Gorgias, when he was made governor of the district, maintained a force of mercenaries, and at every turn kept up war with the Jews.

2 Maccabees 10.15: 15 And together with him the Idumaeans also, being masters of important strongholds, harassed the Jews; and receiving to them those that had taken refuge there from Jerusalem, they assayed to keep up war.

2 Maccabees 10.16: 16 But Maccabaeus and his men, having made solemn supplication and implored God to fight on their side, rushed upon the strongholds of the Idumaeans;

2 Maccabees 10.17: 17 and assaulting them vigorously they made themselves masters of the positions, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and killed those that fell in their way, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.

2 Maccabees 10.18: 18 And because no less than nine thousand were fled into two towers exceedingly strong and having all things needed for a seige,

2 Maccabees 10.19: 19 Maccabaeus, having left Simon and Joseph, and Zacchaeus besides and those who were with him, a force sufficient to besiege them, departed himself to places where he was most needed.

2 Maccabees 10.20: 20 But Simon and those who were with him, yielding to covetousness, were bribed by certain of those that were in the towers, and receiving seventy thousand drachmas let some of them slip away.

2 Maccabees 10.21: 21 But when word was brought to Maccabaeus of what was done, he gathered the leaders of the people together, and accused those men of having sold their kindred for money, by setting their enemies free to fight against them.

2 Maccabees 10.22: 22 So he killed these men for having turned traitors, and forthwith took possession of the two towers.

2 Maccabees 10.23: 23 And prospering with his arms in all things he took in hand, he destroyed in the two strongholds more than twenty thousand.

2 Maccabees 10.24: 24 Now Timotheus, who had been before defeated by the Jews, having gathered together foreign forces in great multitudes, and having collected the 9 horsemen which belonged to Asia, not a few, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.

2 Maccabees 10.25: 25 But as he drew near, Maccabaeus and his men sprinkled earth upon their heads and girded their loins with sackcloth, in supplication to God,

2 Maccabees 10.26: 26 and falling down upon the step in front of the altar, implored him to become 10 gracious to them, and 11 be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares.

2 Maccabees 10.27: 27 And rising from their prayer they took up their arms, and advanced some distance from the city; and when they had come near to their enemies they 12 halted.

2 Maccabees 10.28: 28 And when the dawn was now spreading, the two armies joined battle; the one part having this, beside their virtue, for a pledge of success and victory, that they had fled to the Lord for refuge, the others making their passion their leader in the strife.

2 Maccabees 10.29: 29 But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared out of heaven to their adversaries five men on horses with bridles of gold, in splendid array; 13 and two of them, leading on the Jews,

2 Maccabees 10.30: 30 and taking Maccabaeus in the midst of them, and covering him with their own armor, guarded him from wounds, while on the adversaries they shot forth arrows and thunderbolts; by reason whereof they were blinded and thrown into confusion, and were cut to pieces, filled with bewilderment.

2 Maccabees 10.31: 31 And there were slain twenty thousand and five hundred, beside six hundred horsemen.

2 Maccabees 10.32: 32 But Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of exceedingly strength, 14 Chaereas being in command there.

2 Maccabees 10.33: 33 But Maccabaeus and his men were glad and laid siege to the fortress four and twenty days.

2 Maccabees 10.34: 34 And those who were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and hurled forth impious words.

2 Maccabees 10.35: 35 But at dawn of the five and twentieth day certain young men of the company of Maccabaeus, inflamed with passion because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall with masculine force and with 15 furious passion, and cut down whoever came in their way.

2 Maccabees 10.36: 36 And others climbing up in like manner, while the besieged were distracted with them that had made their way within, set fire to the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; while others broke open the gates, and, having given entrance to the rest of the band, occupied the city.

2 Maccabees 10.37: 37 And they killed Timotheus, who was hidden in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes.

2 Maccabees 10.38: 38 And when they had accomplished these things, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, him who does great benefits to Israel, and gives them the victory.

2 Maccabees 11.1: 11Now after a very little time Lysias, the king’s guardian and kinsman and chancellor, being sore displeased for the things that had come to pass,

2 Maccabees 11.2: 2 collected about fourscore thousand footmen and all his horsemen and came against the Jews, thinking to make the city a place for Greeks to dwell in,

2 Maccabees 11.3: 3 and to levy tribute on the temple, as 1 on the other sacred places of the nations, and to put up the high priesthood to sale every year;

2 Maccabees 11.4: 4 holding in no account the might of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.

2 Maccabees 11.5: 5 And coming into Judea and drawing near to Bethsuron, which was a strong place and distant from Jerusalem about 2 five leagues, he pressed it hard.

2 Maccabees 11.6: 6 But when Maccabaeus and his men learned that he was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people with lamentations and tears made supplication to the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel.

2 Maccabees 11.7: 7 And Maccabaeus himself took up arms first, and exhorted the others to put themselves in jeopardy together with him and help their kindred; and they went out with him very willingly.

2 Maccabees 11.8: 8 And as they were there, close to Jerusalem, there appeared at their head one on horseback in white apparel, brandishing 3 weapons of gold.

2 Maccabees 11.9: 9 And they all together praised the merciful God, and were yet more strengthened in heart: being ready to 4 assail not men only but the wildest beasts, and walls of iron,

2 Maccabees 11.10: 10 they advanced in array, having him that is in heaven to fight on their side, for the Lord had mercy on them.

2 Maccabees 11.11: 11 And hurling themselves like lions upon the enemy, they killed of them eleven thousand footmen and sixteen hundred horsemen, and forced all the rest to flee.

2 Maccabees 11.12: 12 But the more part of them escaped wounded and naked; and Lysias also himself escaped by shameful flight.

2 Maccabees 11.13: 13 But as he was a man not void of understanding, weighing with himself the defeat which had befallen him, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because the Almighty God fought on their side, he sent again to them,

2 Maccabees 11.14: 14 and persuaded them to come to terms on condition that all their rights were acknowledged, and 5 promised that he would also persuade the king to become their friend.

2 Maccabees 11.15: 15 And Maccabaeus gave consent upon all the conditions which Lysias proposed to him, being careful of the common good; for whatever requests Maccabaeus delivered in writing to Lysias concerning the Jews the king allowed.

2 Maccabees 11.16: 16 For the letters written to the Jews from Lysias were to this effect:

2 Maccabees 11.17: 17 John and Absalom, who were sent from you, having delivered the 7 petition written below, made request concerning the things signified therein.

2 Maccabees 11.18: 18 Whatever things therefore had need to be brought before the king I declared to him, and what things were possible he allowed.

2 Maccabees 11.19: 19 If then you° will preserve your good will toward the state, henceforward I will also endeavor to contribute to your good.

2 Maccabees 11.20: 20 8 And on this behalf I have given order in detail, both to these men and to those that are sent from me, to confer with you.

2 Maccabees 11.21: 21 Fare you° well. Written in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the four and twentieth day of the month 9 Dioscorinthius.

2 Maccabees 11.23: 23 Seeing that our father passed to the gods having the wish that the subjects of his kingdom 10 should be undisturbed and give themselves to the care of their own affairs,

2 Maccabees 11.24: 24 we, having heard that the Jews do not consent to our father’s purpose to turn them to the customs of the Greeks, but choose rather their own manner of living, and make request that the customs of their law be allowed to them,—

2 Maccabees 11.25: 25 choosing therefore that this nation also should be free from 11 disturbance, we determine that their temple be restored to them, and that they live according to the customs that were in the days of their ancestors.

2 Maccabees 11.26: 26 You will therefore do well to send messengers to them and give them the right hand of friendship, that they, knowing our mind, may be of good heart, and gladly occupy themselves with the conduct of their own affairs.

2 Maccabees 11.27: 27 And to the nation the king’s letter was after this manner:

2 Maccabees 11.28: 28 If you° fare well, we have our desire: we ourselves also are in good health.

2 Maccabees 11.29: 29 Menelaus informed us that your desire was to return home and follow your own business.

2 Maccabees 11.30: 30 They therefore that depart home up to the thirties day of Xanthicus shall have our 12 friendship, with full permission

2 Maccabees 11.31: 31 that the Jews use their own proper meats and observe their own laws, even as formerly; and none of them shall be in any way molested for the things that have been ignorantly done.

2 Maccabees 11.32: 32 Moreover I have sent Menelaus also, that he may encourage you.

2 Maccabees 11.33: 33 Fare you° well. Written in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.

Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.

2 Maccabees 11.35: 35 In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent.

2 Maccabees 11.36: 36 But as for the things which he judged should be referred to the king, send one forthwith, after you° have advised thereof, that we may publish such decrees as befit your case; for we are on our way to Antioch.

2 Maccabees 11.37: 37 Wherefore send some with speed, that we also may learn what is your mind.

2 Maccabees 11.38: 38 13 Farewell. Written in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.

2 Maccabees 12.1: 12So when these covenants had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their husbandry.

2 Maccabees 12.2: 2 But certain of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, and Hieronymus also and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace.

2 Maccabees 12.3: 3 And men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews that lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them;

2 Maccabees 12.4: 4 and when 1 the Jews, 2 relying on the common decree of the city, accepted the invitation, as men desiring to live in peace and suspecting nothing, they took them out to sea and drowned them, in number not less than two hundred.

2 Maccabees 12.5: 5 But when Judas heard of the cruelty done to his fellow-countrymen, giving command to the men that were with him

2 Maccabees 12.6: 6 and calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against the murderers of his kindred, and set the haven on fire by night, and burned the boats, and put to the sword those that had fled there.

2 Maccabees 12.7: 7 But when the town was closed against him, he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa.

2 Maccabees 12.8: 8 But learning that the men of Jamnia were minded to do in like manner to the Jews that sojourned among them,

2 Maccabees 12.9: 9 he fell upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire to the haven together with the fleet, so that the glare of the light was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred and forty furlongs distant.

2 Maccabees 12.10: 10 Now when they had drawn off nine furlongs from thence, as they marched against Timotheus, an army of Arabians attacked him, no fewer than five thousand footmen and five hundred horsemen.

2 Maccabees 12.11: 11 And when a sore battle had been fought, and Judas and his company by the help of God had good success, the nomads being overcome implored Judas to grant them friendship, promising to give him cattle, and to help 3 his people in all other ways.

2 Maccabees 12.12: 12 So Judas, thinking that they would indeed be profitable in many things, agreed to live in peace with them; and receiving pledges of friendship they departed to their tents.

2 Maccabees 12.13: 13 And he also fell upon a certain city 4 Gephyrun, strong and fenced about with walls, and inhabited by a mixed multitude of various nations; and it was named Caspin.

2 Maccabees 12.14: 14 But those who were within, trusting to the strength of the walls and to their store of provisions, behaved themselves rudely toward Judas and those who were with him, railing, and furthermore blaspheming and speaking impious words.

2 Maccabees 12.15: 15 But Judas and his company, calling upon the great sovereign of the world, who without rams and cunning engines of war hurled down Jericho in the times of Joshua, rushed wildly against the wall;

2 Maccabees 12.16: 16 and having taken the city by the will of God, they made unspeakable slaughter, insomuch that the adjoining lake, which was two furlongs broad, appeared to be filled with the deluge of blood.

2 Maccabees 12.17: 17 And when they had drawn off seven hundred and fifty furlongs from thence, they made their way to Charax, to the Jews that are called 5 Tubieni.

2 Maccabees 12.18: 18 And Timotheus they found not in occupation of that district, for he had then departed from the district without accomplishing anything, but had left behind a garrison, and that a very strong one, in a certain post.

2 Maccabees 12.19: 19 But Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabaeus’s captains, went out and destroyed those that had been left by Timotheus in the stronghold, above ten thousand men.

2 Maccabees 12.20: 20 And Maccabaeus, ranging his own army by bands, set 6 these two over the bands, and marched in haste against Timotheus, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand footmen and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.

2 Maccabees 12.21: 21 But when Timotheus heard of the inroad of Judas, he at once sent away the women and the children and also the baggage into the fortress called 7 Carnion; for the place was hard to besiege and difficult of access by reason of the narrowness of the approaches on all sides.

2 Maccabees 12.22: 22 But when the band of Judas, who led the van, appeared in sight, and when terror came upon the enemy and fear, because the manifestation of him who sees all things came upon them, they fled amain, carried this way and that, so that they were often hurt of their own men, and pierced with the points of their swords.

2 Maccabees 12.23: 23 And Judas continued the pursuit the more hotly, putting the wicked wretches to the sword, and he destroyed as many as thirty thousand men.

2 Maccabees 12.24: 24 But Timotheus himself, falling in with the company of Dositheus and Sosipater, implored them with much crafty guile to let him go with his life, because he had in his power the parents of many of them and the kindred of some: 8 otherwise, said he, little regard will 9 be shown to these.

2 Maccabees 12.25: 25 So when he had with many words confirmed the agreement to restore them without hurt, they let him go that they might save their kindred.

2 Maccabees 12.26: 26 And Judas, marching against 10 Carnion and the temple of Atergatis, killed five and twenty thousand persons.

2 Maccabees 12.27: 27 And after he had put these to flight and destroyed them, he marched against Ephron also, a strong city, 11 wherein were multitudes of people of all nations; and stalwart young men placed 12 on the walls made a vigorous defense; and there were great stores of engines and darts there.

2 Maccabees 12.28: 28 But calling upon the Sovereign who with might breaks in pieces the 13 strength of 14 the enemy, they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty and five thousand of those who were within.

2 Maccabees 12.29: 29 And setting out from thence they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is distant from Jerusalem six hundred furlongs.

2 Maccabees 12.30: 30 But when the Jews that were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shown toward them, and of their kindly bearing toward them in the times of their misfortune,

2 Maccabees 12.31: 31 they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well affected toward the race for the future; and they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close to hand.

2 Maccabees 12.32: 32 But after the feast called Pentecost they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea:

2 Maccabees 12.33: 33 and he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.

2 Maccabees 12.34: 34 And when they had set themselves in array, it came to pass that a few of the Jews fell.

2 Maccabees 12.35: 35 And a certain Dositheus, one 15 of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback and a strong man, pressed hard on Gorgias, and taking hold of his cloke drew him along by main force; and while he was minded to take the accursed man alive, one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and disabled his shoulder, and so Gorgias escaped to 16 Marisa.

2 Maccabees 12.36: 36 And when those who were with Esdris had been fighting long and were wearied out, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself, fighting on their side and leading the van of the battle;

2 Maccabees 12.37: 37 and then in the language of his fathers he raised the battle-cry joined with hymns, and rushing unawares upon the troops of Gorgias put them to flight.

2 Maccabees 12.38: 38 And Judas gathering his army came to the city of 17 Adullam; and as the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the Sabbath there.

2 Maccabees 12.39: 39 And on the day following, 18 at which time it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of those who had fallen, 19 and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their fathers.

2 Maccabees 12.40: 40 But under the garments of each one of the dead they found 20 consecrated tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to have anything to do with; and it became clear to all that it was for this cause that they had fallen.

2 Maccabees 12.41: 41 All therefore, blessing the works of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hid,

2 Maccabees 12.42: 42 betook themselves to supplication, beseeching that the sin committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the multitude to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they had seen before their eyes what things had come to pass because of the sin of those who had fallen.

2 Maccabees 12.43: 43 And when he had made a collection man by man to the sum of two thousand drachmas of silver, he sent to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice for sin, doing therein right well and honorably, in that he took thought for a resurrection.

2 Maccabees 12.44: 44 For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it were superfluous and idle to pray for the dead.

2 Maccabees 12.45: 45 (And if he did it looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who 21 die 22 in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin.

2 Maccabees 13.1: 13In the hundred forty and ninth year tidings were brought to Judas and his company that Antiochus Eupator was coming with great multitudes against Judea,

2 Maccabees 13.2: 2 and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, 1 each having a Greek force, a hundred and ten thousand footmen, and five thousand and three hundred horsemen, and two and twenty elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.

2 Maccabees 13.3: 3 And Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the saving of his country, but because he thought that he would be set over the government.

2 Maccabees 13.4: 4 But the King of kings stirred up the 2 passion of Antiochus against the wicked wretch; and when Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, the king commanded to bring him to Beroea, and 3 to put him to death after the manner of that place.

2 Maccabees 13.5: 5 Now there is in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all round it a 4 gallery 5 descending sheer on every side into the ashes.

2 Maccabees 13.6: 6 Here him that is guilty of sacrilege, or has attained a preeminence in any other evil deeds, they 6 all push forward into destruction.

2 Maccabees 13.7: 7 By such a fate it befell the breaker of the law, Menelaus, to die, without obtaining so much as a grave in the earth, and that right justly;

2 Maccabees 13.8: 8 for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins 7 against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, in ashes did he receive his death.

2 Maccabees 13.9: 9 Now the king, 8 infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had befallen them in his father’s time.

2 Maccabees 13.10: 10 But when Judas heard of these things, he gave charge to the multitude to call upon the Lord day and night, beseeching him, if ever at any other time, so now to help those who were at the point to be deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple,

2 Maccabees 13.11: 11 and not to suffer the people that had been but now a little while revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen.

2 Maccabees 13.12: 12 So when they had all done the same thing together, 9 beseeching the merciful Lord with weeping and fastings and prostration for three days without ceasing, Judas exhorted them and commanded they should join him for service.

2 Maccabees 13.13: 13 And having gone apart with the elders he resolved that, before the king’s army should enter into Judea and make themselves masters of the city, they should go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of 10 God.

2 Maccabees 13.14: 14 And committing the decision to the 11 Lord of the world, and exhorting those who were with him to contend nobly even to death for laws, temple, city, country, 12 commonwealth, he pitched his camp by Modin.

2 Maccabees 13.15: 15 And given out to his men the watchword, VICTORY IS GOD’S, with a chosen body of the bravest young men he fell upon the camp by night and penetrated to the king’s 13 tent, and killed 14 of the 15 army as many as two thousand men, and 16 brought down the chiefest elephant with him that was in the 17 tower upon him.

2 Maccabees 13.16: 16 And at last they filled the 18 army with terror and alarm, and departed with good success.

2 Maccabees 13.17: 17 And this had been accomplished when the day was but now dawning, because of the Lord’s protection that gave 19 Judas help.

2 Maccabees 13.18: 18 But the king, having had a taste of the exceeding boldness of the Jews, made attempts by stratagem upon their positions,

2 Maccabees 13.19: 19 and upon a strong fortress of the Jews at Bethsura; he advanced, was turned back, failed, was defeated,

2 Maccabees 13.20: 20 And Judas conveyed such things as were necessary to those who were within.

2 Maccabees 13.21: 21 But Rhodocus, from the Jewish ranks, made known to the enemy the secrets of his countrymen. He was sought out, and taken, and shut up in prison.

2 Maccabees 13.22: 22 The king treated with them in Bethsura the second time, gave his hand, took theirs, departed, attacked the forces of Judas, was put to the worse,

2 Maccabees 13.23: 23 heard that Philip who had been left as chancellor in Antioch had become reckless, was confounded, made to the Jews an overture of peace, submitted himself and sware to acknowledge all their rights, came to terms with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and the place,

2 Maccabees 13.24: 24 showed kindness and graciously received Maccabaeus, left Hegemonides governor from Ptolemais even to the 20 Gerrenians,

2 Maccabees 13.25: 25 came to Ptolemais. The men of Ptolemais were displeased at the treaty, for they had exceedingly great indignation against the Jews: they desired to annul the articles of the agreement.

2 Maccabees 13.26: 26 Lysias 21 came forward to speak, made the best defense that was possible, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, departed to Antioch. This was the issue of the inroad and departure of the king.

2 Maccabees 14.1: 14Now after a space of three years tidings were brought to Judas and his company that Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having sailed into the haven of Tripolis with a mighty army and a fleet,

2 Maccabees 14.2: 2 had gotten possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and Lysias his guardian.

2 Maccabees 14.3: 3 But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar,

2 Maccabees 14.4: 4 came to king Demetrius in about the hundred and one and fifties year, presenting to him a chaplet of gold and a palm, and beside these some of the festal olive boughs of the temple. And for that day he held his peace;

2 Maccabees 14.5: 5 but having gotten opportunity to further his own madness, being called by Demetrius into a meeting of his council, and asked how the Jews stood affected and what they purposed, he answered thereto.

2 Maccabees 14.6: 6 Those of the Jews that he called 1 Hasidaeans, whose leader is Judas Maccabaeus, keep up war, and are seditious, not suffering the kingdom to find tranquillity.

2 Maccabees 14.7: 7 Wherefore, having laid aside my ancestral glory, I mean the high priesthood, I am now come 2 here;

2 Maccabees 14.8: 8 first for the unfeigned care I have for the things that concern the king, and secondly because I have regard also to my own fellow-citizens: for, through the unadvised dealing of those of whom I spoke before, our whole race is in no small misfortune.

2 Maccabees 14.9: 9 But do you, O king, having informed yourself of these things severally, take thought both for our country and for our race, which 3 is surrounded by foes, according to the gracious kindness with which you receive all.

2 Maccabees 14.10: 10 For as long as Judas remains alive, it is impossible that the state should find peace.

2 Maccabees 14.11: 11 And when he had spoken such words as these, at once 4 the rest of the king’s 5 Friends, having ill will against Judas, inflamed Demetrius yet more.

2 Maccabees 14.12: 12 And forthwith appointing Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and making him governor of Judea, he sent him forth,

2 Maccabees 14.13: 13 giving him written instructions to make away with Judas himself and to scatter those who were with him, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the 6 great temple.

2 Maccabees 14.14: 14 And 7 those in Judea that 8 had before driven Judas into exile thronged to Nicanor in flocks, supposing that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would be successes to themselves.

2 Maccabees 14.15: 15 But when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s inroad and the assault of the heathen, they sprinkled earth upon their heads and made solemn supplication to him who had established his own people for evermore, and who always, making manifest his presence, upholds those who are his own portion.

2 Maccabees 14.16: 16 9 And when the leader had given his commands, he immediately sets out from thence, and joins battle with them at a village called Lessau.

2 Maccabees 14.17: 17 But Simon, the brother of Judas, had encountered Nicanor, 10 yet not till late, having received a check by reason of the sudden consternation caused by his adversaries.

2 Maccabees 14.18: 18 Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of those who were with Judas, and their courage in fighting for their country, shrank from bringing the matter to the decision of the sword.

2 Maccabees 14.19: 19 Wherefore he sent Posidonius and Theodotus and Mattathias to give and receive pledges of friendship.

2 Maccabees 14.20: 20 So when these proposals had been long considered, and the leader had made the 11 troops acquainted therewith, and it appeared that they were all of like mind, they consented to the covenants.

2 Maccabees 14.21: 21 And they appointed a day on which to meet together by themselves. And a litter was borne forward from each army; they set chairs of state;

2 Maccabees 14.22: 22 Judas stationed armed men ready in convenient places, lest perhaps there should suddenly be treachery on the part of the enemy; they held such conference as was meet.

2 Maccabees 14.23: 23 Nicanor waited in Jerusalem, and did nothing to cause disturbance, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered together.

2 Maccabees 14.24: 24 And he kept Judas always in his presence; he had gained a hearty affection for the man;

2 Maccabees 14.25: 25 he urged him to marry and beget children; he married, settled quietly, took part in common life.

2 Maccabees 14.26: 26 But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, 12 and having got possession of the covenants that had been made, came to Demetrius and told him that Nicanor was ill affected toward the state, for he had appointed that conspirator against his kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.

2 Maccabees 14.27: 27 And the king, falling into a rage, and being exasperated by the false accusations of that most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was displeased at the covenants, and commanding him to send Maccabaeus prisoner to Antioch in all haste.

2 Maccabees 14.28: 28 And when this message came to Nicanor, he was confounded, and was sore troubled at the thought of annulling the articles that had been agreed upon, the man having done no wrong;

2 Maccabees 14.29: 29 but because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to execute this purpose by stratagem.

2 Maccabees 14.30: 30 But Maccabaeus, when he perceived that Nicanor was behaving more harshly in his dealings with him, and that he had become ruler in his customary bearing, understanding that this harshness came not of good, gathered together not a few of his men, and concealed himself from Nicanor.

2 Maccabees 14.31: 31 But the other, 13 when he became aware that he had been bravely defeated by the stratagem of 14 Judas, came to the 15 great and holy temple, while the priests were offering the usual sacrifices, and commanded them to deliver up the man.

2 Maccabees 14.32: 32 And when they declared with oaths that they had no knowledge where the man was whom he sought,

2 Maccabees 14.33: 33 he stretched forth his right hand toward the sanctuary, and sware this oath: If you° will not deliver up to me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this 16 temple of God even with the ground, and will break down the altar, and I will erect here a temple to 17 Bacchus for all to see.

2 Maccabees 14.34: 34 And having said this, he departed. But the priests, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, called upon him that ever fights for our nation, in these words:

2 Maccabees 14.35: 35 You, 18 O Lord of the universe, who in yourself have need of nothing, was well pleased that a sanctuary of your 19 habitation should be set among us;

2 Maccabees 14.36: 36 so now, O holy Lord of all hallowing, keep undefiled forever this house that has been lately cleansed.

2 Maccabees 14.37: 37 Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, 20 as being a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will toward them.

2 Maccabees 14.38: 38 For in the former times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles he had been accused of cleaving to the Jews’ religion, and had jeoparded body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews.

2 Maccabees 14.39: 39 And Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bare to the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to take him;

2 Maccabees 14.40: 40 for he thought by taking him to inflict a calamity upon them.

2 Maccabees 14.41: 41 But when the 21 troops were on the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and bade bring fire and burn the doors, he being surrounded on every side fell upon his sword,

2 Maccabees 14.42: 42 choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness:

2 Maccabees 14.43: 43 but since he missed his stroke through the excitement of the struggle, and the crowds were now rushing within the door, he ran bravely up to the wall and cast himself down manfully among the crowds.

2 Maccabees 14.44: 44 But as they quickly gave back, a space was made, and he fell on the middle of 22 his side.

2 Maccabees 14.45: 45 And having yet breath within him, and being inflamed with passion, he rose up, and though his blood gushed out in streams and his wounds were grievous, he ran through the crowds, and standing upon a steep rock,

2 Maccabees 14.46: 46 when as his blood was now well near spent, he drew forth his bowels through the wound, and taking them in both his hands he shook them at the crowds; and calling upon him who is Lord of 23 the life and the 24 spirit to restore him 25 these again, he thus died.

2 Maccabees 15.1: 15But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the region of Samaria, resolved to set upon them with all security on the day of rest.

2 Maccabees 15.2: 2 And when the Jews that were compelled to follow him said, O destroy not so savagely and barbarously, but give due glory to the day which he that sees all things has 1 honored and hallowed above other days;

2 Maccabees 15.3: 3 then the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a Sovereign in heaven that had commanded to keep the Sabbath day.

2 Maccabees 15.4: 4 And when they declared, There is the Lord, living himself a Sovereign in heaven, who bade us observe the seventh day;

2 Maccabees 15.5: 5 then says the other, I also am a sovereign upon the earth, 2 who now command to take up arms and execute the king’s business. Nevertheless he prevailed not to execute his 3 cruel purpose.

2 Maccabees 15.6: 6 And Nicanor, 4 bearing himself haughtily in all vaingloriousness, had determined to set up a monument of complete victory over Judas and all those who were with him:

2 Maccabees 15.7: 7 but Maccabaeus still trusted unceasingly, with all hope that he should obtain help from the Lord.

2 Maccabees 15.8: 8 And he exhorted his company not to be fearful at the 5 inroad of the heathen, but, keeping in mind the help which of old they had oftentimes received from heaven, so now also to look for the victory which would come to them from the Almighty;

2 Maccabees 15.9: 9 and comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the conflicts that they had maintained, he made them more eager for the battle.

2 Maccabees 15.10: 10 And when he had roused their 6 spirit, he gave them his commands, at the same time pointing out the perfidiousness of the heathen and their breach of their oaths.

2 Maccabees 15.11: 11 And arming each one of them, not so much with the sure defense of shields and spears as with the encouragement that lies in good words, and moreover relating to them a dream 7 worthy to be believed, he made them all exceedingly glad.

2 Maccabees 15.12: 12 And the vision of that dream was this: He saw Onias, him that was high priest, a noble and good man, reverend in bearing, yet gentle in manner and well-spoken, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, with outstretched hands invoking blessings on the whole body of the Jews:

2 Maccabees 15.13: 13 thereupon he saw a man appear, of venerable age and exceedingly glory, and wonderful and most majestic was the dignity around him:

2 Maccabees 15.14: 14 and Onias answered and said, This is the lover of the kindred, he who prays much for the people and the holy city, Jeremiah the prophet of God:

2 Maccabees 15.15: 15 and Jeremiah stretching forth his right hand delivered to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it addressed him thus,

2 Maccabees 15.16: 16 Take the holy sword, a gift from God, wherewith you shall strike down the adversaries.

2 Maccabees 15.17: 17 And being encouraged by the words of Judas, which were of a lofty strain, and able to incite to virtue and to stir the souls of the young to manly courage, they determined 8 not to carry on a campaign, but nobly to bear down upon the enemy, and fighting hand to hand with all courage bring the matter to an issue, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.

2 Maccabees 15.18: 18 For their fear for wives and children, and furthermore for kindred and kinsfolk, was in less account with them; but greatest and first was their fear for the consecrated sanctuary.

2 Maccabees 15.19: 19 And they also that were shut up in the city were in no light distress, being troubled because of the encounter in the open ground.

2 Maccabees 15.20: 20 And when all were now waiting for the decision of the issue, and the enemy had already joined battle, and the army had been set in array, and the 9 elephants 10 brought back to a convenient post, and the horsemen drawn up 11 on the flank,

2 Maccabees 15.21: 21 Maccabaeus, perceiving the presence of the 12 troops, and the various arms with which they were equipped, and the savageness of the 13 elephants, holding up his hands to heaven called upon the Lord that works wonders, recognising that success comes not by arms, but that, according as the Lord shall judge, he gains the victory for those who are worthy.

2 Maccabees 15.22: 22 And calling upon God he said after this manner: You, O Sovereign Lord, did send your angel in the time of Hezekiah king of Judea, and he killed of the 14 army of Sennacherib as many as a hundred fourscore and five thousand;

2 Maccabees 15.23: 23 so now also, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel before us to bring terror and trembling:

2 Maccabees 15.24: 24 through the greatness of your arm let them be stricken with dismay that with blasphemy are come here against your holy people. And as he ended with these words,

2 Maccabees 15.25: 25 Nicanor and his company advanced with trumpets and victory songs;

2 Maccabees 15.26: 26 but Judas and his company joined battle with the enemy with invocation and prayers.

2 Maccabees 15.27: 27 And contending with their hands, and praying to God with their hearts, they killed no less than thirty five thousand men, being made exceedingly glad by the manifestation of God.

2 Maccabees 15.28: 28 And when the engagement was over, and they were returning again with joy, they recognized Nicanor lying dead in full armor;

2 Maccabees 15.29: 29 and there arose a shout and 15 tumult, and then they blessed the Sovereign Lord in the language of their fathers.

2 Maccabees 15.30: 30 And he that in all things was in body and soul the foremost champion of his fellow-citizens, he that kept through life the good will of his youth toward his countrymen, commanded to cut off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with the shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.

2 Maccabees 15.31: 31 And when he had arrived there, and had called his countrymen together and set the priests before the altar, he sent for those who were in the citadel;

2 Maccabees 15.32: 32 and showing the head of the vile Nicanor, and the hand of that profane man, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty,

2 Maccabees 15.33: 33 and cutting out the tongue of the impious Nicanor, he said that he would give 16 it by pieces to the birds, and hang up the 17 rewards of his madness near the sanctuary.

2 Maccabees 15.34: 34 And they all looking up to heaven blessed 18 the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, Blessed be he that has preserved his own place undefiled.

2 Maccabees 15.35: 35 And he hanged Nicanor’s head and shoulder from the citadel, a sign, evident to all and manifest, of the help of the Lord.

2 Maccabees 15.36: 36 And they all ordained with a common decree in no wise to let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honor the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian tongue), the day before the day of Mordecai.

2 Maccabees 15.37: 37 THIS then having been the issue of the attempt of Nicanor, and the city having from those times been held by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my book.

2 Maccabees 15.38: 38 And if I have written well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if meanly and indifferently, this is all I could attain to.

2 Maccabees 15.39: 39 For as it is 19 distasteful to drink wine alone and in like manner again to drink water alone, 20 while the mingling of wine with water at once 21 gives full pleasantness to the flavor; so also the fashioning of the language delights the ears of those who read the story.

The First Book of Esdras is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but 1 Esdras is placed as an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.1: 1a Josias held the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month;

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.2: 2 having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.3: 3 And he spoke to the Levites, 1 the temple-servants of Israel, that they should make themselves holy to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.4: 4 and said, You° shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister to his people Israel, and prepare you after your fathers’ houses and kindred,

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.5: 5 according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the holy place according to the several divisions of the families of you the Levites, who minister in the presence of your kindred the children of Israel,

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.6: 6 offer the Passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given to Moses.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.7: 7 And to the people which were present Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s substance, according as he promised, to the people, and to the priests and Levites.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.8: 8 And Helkias, and Zacharias, and 2 Esyelus, the rulers of the temple, gave to the priests for the Passover two thousand and six hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.9: 9 And Jeconias, and Samaias and Nathanael his brother, and Sabias, and Ochielus, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the Passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.10: 10 And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in comely order according to the kindred,

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.11: 11 and according to the several divisions by fathers’ houses, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus did they in the morning.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.12: 12 And they roasted the Passover with fire, as appertains: and the sacrifices they sod in the brazen vessels and caldrons with a good savor,

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.13: 13 and set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests their kindred, the sons of Aaron.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.14: 14 For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests their kindred, the sons of Aaron.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.15: 15 The holy singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their order, according to the appointment of David, to wit, Asaph, Zacharias, and Eddinus, who 3 was of the king’s retinue.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.16: 16 Moreover the gatekeepers were at every gate; none had need to depart from his daily course: for their kindred the Levites prepared for them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.17: 17 Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, in holding the Passover,

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.18: 18 and offering sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.19: 19 So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.20: 20 And such a Passover was not held in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.21: 21 Yes, all the kings of Israel held not such a Passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were present in their dwelling place at Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.22: 22 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this Passover held.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.23: 23 And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.24: 24 Moreover the things that came to pass in his days have been written in times past, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above every people and kingdom, and how they grieved him 4 exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord were confirmed against Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.25: 25 b Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchemish upon Euphrates: and Josias went out against him.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.26: 26 But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judea?

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.27: 27 I am not sent out from the Lord God against you; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yes, the Lord is with me hastening me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.28: 28 However Josias didn’t turn back 5 to his chariot, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy spoken by the mouth of the Lord:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.29: 29 but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came down against King Josias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.30: 30 Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the army.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.31: 31 Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.32: 32 And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him, to this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.33: 33 These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.34: 34 c And the people took 6 Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.35: 35 And he reigned in 7 Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.36: 36 And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.37: 37 The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.38: 38 And Joakim bound the nobles: but Zarakes his brother he apprehended, and brought him up out of Egypt.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.39: 39 Five and twenty years old was d Joakim when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.40: 40 And against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.41: 41 Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them up in his own temple at Babylon.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.42: 42 But those things that are reported of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.43: 43 And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was 8 eighteen years old;

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.44: 44 and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did that which was evil before the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.45: 45 So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought to Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.46: 46 and made Sedekias king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.47: 47 and he also did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken by Jeremy the prophet from the mouth of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.48: 48 And after king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.49: 49 Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, 9 and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.50: 50 And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.51: 51 But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spoke to them, they scoffed at his prophets:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.52: 52 so far forth, that he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them;

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.53: 53 who killed their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child; but he delivered all into their hands.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.54: 54 And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with 10 the vessels of the ark of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon.

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.55: 55 And they burned the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burned the towers thereof with fire:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.56: 56 and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nothing: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried to Babylon:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.57: 57 and they were servants to him and to his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy:

1 Esdras (Greek) 1.58: 58 Until the land has enjoyed her Sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.1: 2In the a first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.2: 2 the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.3: 3 saying, Cyrus king of the Persians says: The Lord of Israel, the Most High Lord, has made me king of the whole world,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.4: 4 and commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judea.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.5: 5 If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, 1 let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: he is the Lord that dwells in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.6: 6 Of such therefore as dwell in various places, let those who are in his own place help each one with gold, and with silver,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.7: 7 with gifts, with horses also and cattle, beside the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.8: 8 Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.9: 9 And those who lived round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.10: 10 King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in his temple of idols.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.11: 11 Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithradates his treasurer,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.12: 12 and by him they were delivered to 2 Sanabassar the governor of Judea.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.13: 13 And this was the number of them: A thousand golden cups, a thousand cups of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.14: 14 So all the vessels of gold and of silver were brought up, even five thousand four hundred threescore and nine,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.15: 15 and were carried back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.16: 16 b But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Belemus, and Mithradates, and Tabellius, and 3 Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and 4 Samellius the scribe, with the others that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote to him against those who lived in Judea and Jerusalem the letter following:

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.17: 17 To king Artaxerxes our Lord, Your servants, Rathumus the recorder, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.18: 18 Be it now known to our lord the king, that the Jews that have come up from you to us, having come to Jerusalem, are building that rebellious and wicked city, and and repair its marketplaces and walls, and laying the foundation of a temple.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.19: 19 Now if this city is built and the walls thereof are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.20: 20 And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter,

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.21: 21 but to speak to our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be your pleasure, search may be made in the books of your fathers:

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.22: 22 and you shall find in the chronicles what is written concerning these things, and shall understand that that city was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities:

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.23: 23 and that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein of old time; for the which cause even this city was laid waste.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.24: 24 Wherefore now we do declare to you, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, you shall from henceforth have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.25: 25 Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the recorder, and Beeltethmus, and Samellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and lived in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, after this manner:

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.26: 26 I have read the letter which you° have sent to me: therefore I commanded to make search, and it has been found that that city of old time has made insurrection against kings;

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.27: 27 and the men were given to rebellion and war therein: and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tribute in Coelesyria and Phoenicia.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.28: 28 Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this order;

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.29: 29 and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.

1 Esdras (Greek) 2.30: 30 Then king Artaxerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste to Jerusalem with horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.1: 3Now king Darius made a great feast to all his subjects, and to all that were born in his house, and to all the princes of Media and of Persia,

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.2: 2 and to all the local governors and captains and governors that were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the hundred twenty and seven provinces.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.3: 3 And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and awaked out of his sleep.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.4: 4 Then the three young men of the body-guard, that kept the king’s person, spoke one to another:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.5: 5 Let every one of us say one thing which shall be strongest: and he whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, to him shall Darius the king give great gifts, and great honors in token of victory:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.6: 6 as, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and a turban of fine linen, and a chain about his neck:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.7: 7 and he shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.8: 8 And then they wrote every one his sentence, and set to their seals, and laid the writing under king Darius his pillow,

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.9: 9 and said, When the king is risen, some shall give him the writing; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as it is written.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.12: 12 The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth bears away the victory.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.13: 13 Now when the king was risen up, they took the writing, and gave it to him, and so he read it:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.14: 14 and sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and of Media, and the local governors, and the captains, and the governors, and the chief officers;

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.15: 15 and sat him down in the royal seat of judgment; and the writing was read before them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.16: 16 And he said, Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called, and came in.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.17: 17 And they said to them, Declare to us your mind concerning the things you° have written.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.18: 18 and said thus, O sirs, how exceedingly strong is wine! it causes all men to err that drink it:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.19: 19 it makes the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.20: 20 it turns also every thought into cheer and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.21: 21 and it makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor local governor; and it makes to speak all things by talents:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.22: 22 and when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and kindred, and a little after draw their swords:

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.23: 23 but when they awake from their wine, they remember not what they have done.

1 Esdras (Greek) 3.24: 24 O sirs, is not wine the strongest, seeing that it enforces to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.1: 4Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say,

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.2: 2 O sirs, do not men excel in strength, that bear rule over the sea and land, and all things in them?

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.3: 3 But yet is the king stronger: and he is their lord, and has dominion over them; and in whatever he commands them they obey him.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.4: 4 If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: and if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and overcome mountains, walls, and towers.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.5: 5 They kill and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the plunder, as all things else.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.6: 6 Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.7: 7 And he is 1 but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.8: 8 if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.9: 9 if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.10: 10 So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest:

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.11: 11 and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in anything.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.12: 12 O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.13: 13 Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.14: 14 O sirs, is not the king great, and men are many, and wine is strong? who is it then that rules them, or has the lordship over them? are they not women?

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.15: 15 Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.16: 16 Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine comes.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.17: 17 These also make garments for men; these bring glory to men; and without women can’t men be.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.18: 18 Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other goodly thing, 2 and see a woman which is comely in favor and beauty,

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.19: 19 they let all those things go, and gape after her, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have all more desire to her than to gold or silver, or any goodly thing whatever.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.20: 20 A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and joins with his wife.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.21: 21 And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.22: 22 By this also you° must know that women have dominion over you: do you° not labor and toil, and give and bring all to women?

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.23: 23 Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes forth to make outroads, and to rob and to steal, and to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.24: 24 and looks upon a lion, and walks in the darkness; and when he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to his love.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.25: 25 Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.26: 26 Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.27: 27 Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.28: 28 And now do you° not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.29: 29 Yet did I see him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king,

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.30: 30 and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; yes, she struck the king with her left hand:

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.31: 31 and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.32: 32 O sirs, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.33: 33 Then the king and the nobles looked one upon another: so he began to speak concerning truth.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.34: 34 O sirs, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he encircles the heavens round about, and fetches his course again to his own place in one day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.35: 35 Is he not great that makes these things? therefore great is truth, and stronger than all things.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.36: 36 All the earth calls upon truth, and the heaven blesses her: all works shake and tremble, but with 3 her is no unrighteous thing.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.37: 37 Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all the children of men are unrighteous, and unrighteous are all such their works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.38: 38 But truth remains, and is strong forever; she lives and conquers forevermore.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.39: 39 With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she does the things that are just, and refrains from all unrighteous and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.40: 40 Neither in her judgment is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, and the kingdom, and the power, and the majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.41: 41 And with that he held his tongue. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and strong above all things.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.42: 42 Then said the king to him, Ask what you will more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it you, inasmuch as you are found wisest; and you shall sit next me, and shall be called my cousin.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.43: 43 Then said he to the king, Remember your vow, which you did vow to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom,

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.44: 44 and to send away all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them again there.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.45: 45 You did also vow to build up the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.46: 46 And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that shall proceed from you: I pray therefore that you make good the vow, the performance whereof you have vowed to the King of heaven with your own mouth.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.47: 47 Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those that should go up with him to build Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.48: 48 He wrote letters also to all the governors that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.49: 49 Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that should go out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.50: 50 and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.51: 51 and that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.52: 52 and other ten talents yearly, for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.53: 53 and that all those who should come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that came.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.54: 54 He wrote also to give them their charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister;

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.55: 55 and for the Levites he wrote that their charges should be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem built up.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.56: 56 And he commanded to give to all that kept the city lands and wages.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.57: 57 He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he charged also to be done, and sent to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.58: 58 Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.59: 59 and said, From you comes victory, from you comes wisdom, and your is the glory, and I am your servant.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.60: 60 Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom: and to you I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.61: 61 And so he took the letters, and went out, and came to Babylon, and told it all his kindred.

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.62: 62 And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty

1 Esdras (Greek) 4.63: 63 to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.1: 5After this were the chiefs of fathers’ houses chosen to go up according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.2: 2 And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem 1 safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.3: 3 And all their kindred played, and he made them go up together with them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.4: 4 And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several divisions.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.5: 5 The priests, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedek, the son of Saraias, and Joakim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah;

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.6: 6 who spoke wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.7: 7 a And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they lived as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.8: 8 And they returned to Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, and 2 Zaraias, Resaias, 3 Eneneus, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, 4 Aspharsus, 5 Reelias, Roimus, and Baana, their leaders.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.9: 9 The number of them of the nation, and their leaders: the sons of 6 Phoros, two thousand a hundred seventy and two: the sons of 7 Saphat, four hundred seventy and two:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.11: 11 the sons of 9 Phaath Moab, of the sons of Jesus and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.12: 12 the sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four: the sons of 10 Zathui, nine hundred forty and five: the sons of 11 Chorbe, seven hundred and five: the sons of Bani, six hundred forty and eight:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.13: 13 the sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three: the sons of 12 Astad, 13 a thousand three hundred twenty and two:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.14: 14 the sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and seven: the sons of 14 Bagoi, two thousand sixty and six: the sons of 15 Adinu, four hundred fifty and four:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.15: 15 the sons of 16 Ater, of Ezekias, ninety and two: the sons of Kilan and Azetas, three score and seven: the sons of 17 Azaru, four hundred thirty and two:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.16: 16 the sons of 18 Annis, a hundred and one: the sons of Arom: the sons of 19 Bassai, three hundred twenty and three: the sons of Arsiphurith, a hundred and twelve:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.17: 17 the sons of Baiterus, three thousand and five: the sons of 20 Bethlomon, a hundred twenty and three:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.18: 18 they of Netophas, fifty and five: they of Anathoth, a hundred fifty and eight: they of 21 Bethasmoth, forty and two:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.19: 19 they of 22 or 23 Kariathiarius, twenty and five: they of Caphira and Beroth, seven hundred forty and three:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.20: 20 the Chadiasai and Ammidioi, four hundred twenty and two: they of 24 Kirama and 25 Gabbe, six hundred twenty and one:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.21: 21 they of 26 Macalon, a hundred twenty and two: they of 27 Betolion, fifty and two: the sons of 28 Niphis, a hundred fifty and six:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.22: 22 the sons of 29 Calamolalus and 30 Onus, seven hundred twenty and five: the sons of 31 Jerechu, 32 three hundred forty and five:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.23: 23 the sons of 33 Sanaas, three thousand three hundred and 34 thirty.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.24: 24 The priests: the sons of 35 Jeddu, the son of Jesus, among the sons of Sanasib, 36 nine hundred seventy and two: the sons of 37 Emmeruth, 38 a thousand fifty and two:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.25: 25 the sons of 39 Phassurus, a thousand two hundred forty and seven: the sons of 40 Charme, 41 a thousand and seventeen.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.26: 26 The Levites: the sons of Jesus, and Kadmiel, and Bannas, and Sudias, seventy and four.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.27: 27 The holy singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred 42 twenty and eight.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.28: 28 The gatekeepers: the sons of 43 Salum, the sons of 44 Atar, the sons of Tolman, the sons of 45 Dacubi, the sons of 46 Ateta, the sons of 47 Sabi, in all a hundred thirty and nine.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.29: 29 The temple servants: the sons of 48 Esau, the sons of 49 Asipha, the sons of Tabaoth, the sons of 50 Keras, the sons of 51 Sua, the sons of 52 Phaleas, the sons of Labana, the sons of 53 Aggaba.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.30: 30 the sons of 54 Acud, the sons of Uta, the sons of Ketab, the sons of 55 Accaba, the sons of 56 Subai, the sons of 57 Anan, the sons of 58 Cathua, the sons of 59 Geddur,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.31: 31 the sons of 60 Jairus, the sons of 61 Daisan, the sons of 62 Noeba, the sons of Chaseba, the sons of 63 Gazera, the sons of 64 Ozias, the sons of 65 Phinoe, the sons of Asara, the sons of 66 Basthai, the sons of 67 Asana, the sons of 68 Maani, the sons of 69 Naphisi, the sons of 70 Acub, the sons of 71 Achipha, the sons of 72 Asur, the sons of Pharakim, the sons of 73 Basaloth,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.32: 32 the sons of 74 Meedda, the sons of Cutha, the sons of 75 Charea, the sons of 76 Barchus, the sons of 77 Serar, the sons of 78 Thomei, the sons of 79 Nasi, the sons of Atipha.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.33: 33 The sons of the servants of Solomon: the sons of 80 Assaphioth, the sons of 81 Pharida, the sons of 82 Jeeli, the sons of 83 Lozon, the sons of 84 Isdael, the sons of 85 Saphuthi,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.34: 34 the sons of 86 Agia, the sons of 87 Phacareth, the sons of Sabie, the sons of Sarothie, the sons of 88 Masias, the sons of Gas, the sons of Addus, the sons of Subas, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the sons of Saphat, the sons of Allon.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.35: 35 All the temple-servants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.36: 36 These came up from 89 Thermeleth, and 90 Thelersas, 91 Charaathalan leading them, and Allar;

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.37: 37 and they could not show their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of 92 Dalan the son of 93 Ban, the sons of 94 Nekodan, six hundred fifty and two.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.38: 38 And of the priests, those who usurped the office of the priesthood and were not found: the sons of 95 Obdia, the sons of 96 Akkos, the sons of Jaddus, who married Augia one of the daughters of 97 Zorzelleus, and was called after his name.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.39: 39 And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.40: 40 for to them said Nehemias and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest wearing 98 Urim and Thummim.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.41: 41 So all they of Israel, from twelve years old and upward, beside menservants and women servants, were in number forty and two thousand three hundred and sixty.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.42: 42 Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: the minstrels and singers, two hundred forty and five:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.43: 43 four hundred thirty and five camels, seven 99 thousand thirty and six horses, two hundred forty and five mules, five thousand five hundred twenty and five beasts of burden.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.44: 44 And certain of the chief men of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in its own place according to their ability,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.45: 45 and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.46: 46 And the priests and the Levites and those who were of the people lived in Jerusalem and the country; the holy singers also and the gatekeepers and all Israel in their villages.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.47: 47 But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the broad place before the first porch which is toward the east.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.48: 48 Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his kindred, and made ready the altar of the God of Israel,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.49: 49 to offer burned sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.50: 50 And certain were gathered to them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.51: 51 Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.52: 52 and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifices of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all the consecrated feasts.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.53: 53 And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the new moon of the 100 seventh month, although the temple of God was not yet built.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.54: 54 And they gave money to the masons and carpenters; and meat and drink,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.55: 55 and cars to them of Sidon and Tyre, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, and convey them in floats to the haven of Joppa, according to the commandment which was written for them by Cyrus king of the Persians.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.56: 56 And in the second year after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and their kindred, and the Levitical priests, and all those who were come to Jerusalem out of the captivity:

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.57: 57 and they laid the foundation of the temple of God on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they were come to Jewry and Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.58: 58 b And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and kindred, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Jesus, Emadabun, and the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, and their sons and kindred, all the Levites, with one accord started the business, laboring to advance the works in the house of God. So the builders built the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.59: 59 And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with their cymbals,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.60: 60 singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord, after the order of David king of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.61: 61 And they sang aloud, praising the Lord in songs of thanksgiving, because his goodness and his glory are forever in all Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.62: 62 And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.63: 63 c Also of the Levitical priests, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.64: 64 But many with trumpets and joy shouted with loud voice,

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.65: 65 insomuch that the people heard not the trumpets for the weeping of the people: for the multitude sounded marvelously, so that it was heard afar off.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.66: 66 d Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.67: 67 And they perceived that those who were of the captivity did build the temple to the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.68: 68 So they went to zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief men of the families, and said to them, we will build together with you.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.69: 69 For we likewise, as you°, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice to him from the days of 101 Asbasareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us here.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.70: 70 Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief men of the families of Israel said to them, It is not 102 for you to build the house to the Lord our God.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.71: 71 We ourselves alone will build to the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us.

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.72: 72 But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and 103 holding them strait, hindered their building;

1 Esdras (Greek) 5.73: 73 and 104 by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.1: 6Now a in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of 1 Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem; in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, prophesied they to them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.2: 2 Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, and helping them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.3: 3 b At the same time came to them 2 Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, with 3 Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them,

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.4: 4 By whose appointment do you° build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the builders that perform these things?

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.5: 5 Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captivity;

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.6: 6 and they were not hindered from building, until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer signified.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.7: 7 The copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius;

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.8: 8 To king Darius, greeting: Let all things be known to our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.9: 9 building a house to the Lord, great and new, of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.10: 10 And those works are done with great speed, and the work goes on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence it is accomplished.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.11: 11 Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build you° this house, and lay the foundations of these works?

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.12: 12 Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the chief doers, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.13: 13 So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.14: 14 And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.15: 15 But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans;

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.16: 16 and they pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives to Babylon.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.17: 17 But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.18: 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set up in his own temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple in Babylonia, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to 4 Sanabassarus the governor,

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.19: 19 with commandment that he should carry away 5 all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in its place.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.20: 20 Then Sanabassarus, being come here, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.21: 21 Now therefore, if it seem good, O king, let search be made among the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon:

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.22: 22 and if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and it seem good to our lord the king, let him signify to us thereof.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.23: 23 c Then commanded King Darius to seek among the archives that were laid up at Babylon: and so at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a 6 scroll where these things were recorded.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.24: 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.25: 25 whose height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus:

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.26: 26 and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.27: 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.28: 28 And I also do command to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of Judea, till the house of the Lord be finished:

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.29: 29 and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion be carefully given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.30: 30 and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.31: 31 that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.32: 32 And that commandment be given that whoever shall transgress, yes, or neglect anything 7 written here, out of his own house shall a tree be taken, and he be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.33: 33 The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that shall stretch out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 6.34: 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according to these things it be done with diligence.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.1: 7Then a Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius,

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.2: 2 did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.3: 3 And so the holy works prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.4: 4 And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.5: 5 And thus was 1 the house finished by the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.6: 6 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added to them, did according to the things written in the book of Moses.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.7: 7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.8: 8 and twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve 2 princes of the tribes of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.9: 9 The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the gatekeepers at every gate.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.10: 10 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together,

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.11: 11 3 and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together,

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.12: 12 and they offered the Passover for all them of the captivity, and for their kindred the priests, and for themselves.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.13: 13 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.14: 14 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 7.15: 15 for that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.1: 8a And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Ezdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.2: 2 the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, 1 the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.3: 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.4: 4 And the king did him honor: for he found grace in hid sight in all his requests.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.5: 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and 2 temple servants, to Jerusalem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.6: 6 in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them 3 for his sake.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.7: 7 For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgments.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.8: 8 Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.9: 9 King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.10: 10 Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, 4 and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.11: 11 As many therefore as have a mind thereto, let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.12: 12 that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.13: 13 and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.14: 14 with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.15: 15 to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.16: 16 And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.17: 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.18: 18 and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.19: 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.20: 20 to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred 5 measures, and a hundred firkins6 of wine, and 7 salt in abundance.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.21: 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.22: 22 I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.23: 23 And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.24: 24 And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by 8 imprisonment.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.25: 25 Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.26: 26 and has honored me in the sight of the king, and his counselors, and all his friends and nobles.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.27: 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together out of Israel men to go up with me.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.28: 28 And these are the chief according to their families and the several divisions thereof, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.29: 29 of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, 9 Attus 10 the son of Sechenias:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.30: 30 of the sons of Phoros, Zacharais; and with him were counted a hundred and fifty men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.31: 31 of the sons of Phaath Moab, Eliaonias the son of 11 Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.32: 32 12 of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with him 13 three hundred men: of the sons ofAdin, Obeth the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.33: 33 of the sons of Elam, Jesias son of Athaliah. Gotholias, and with him seventy men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.34: 34 of the sons of Saphatias, Zebadiah. Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.35: 35 of the sons of Joab, Obadiah. Abadias son of Jehiel. Jezelus, and with him two hundred and twelve men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.36: 36 14 of the sons of Banias, Salimoth son of Josaphias, and with him a hundred and threescore men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.37: 37 of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.38: 38 of the sons of Azgad. Astath, Joannes son of Hakkatan Akatan, and with him a hundred and ten men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.39: 39 of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and Shemaiah. Samaias, and with them seventy men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.40: 40 of the sons of Bigvai. Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.41: 41 And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.42: 42 But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.44: 44 and Elnathan, and Samaias, and Jarib Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.45: 45 And I bade those who they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.46: 46 and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.47: 47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us 15 men of understanding of the sons of 16 Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, 17 Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.48: 48 and 18 Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.49: 49 and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.50: 50 And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.51: 51 for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.52: 52 For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.53: 53 And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favorable to us.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.54: 54 Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, 19 Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.55: 55 and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counselors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.56: 56 And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.57: 57 and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.58: 58 And I said to them, Both you° are holy to the Lord, 20 and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.59: 59 Watch you°, and keep them till you° deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.60: 60 So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.61: 61 And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from assault by the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.62: 62 And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to 21 Marmoth the priest the son of 22 Urias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.63: 63 And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and 23 Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.64: 64 And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.65: 65 Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.66: 66 threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.67: 67 And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.68: 68 Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.69: 69 The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, 24 nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.70: 70 For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.71: 71 And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.72: 72 So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.73: 73 Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.74: 74 I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.75: 75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.76: 76 ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.77: 77 And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.78: 78 And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.79: 79 and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.80: 80 Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.81: 81 and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.82: 82 And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.83: 83 That the land, which you° enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.84: 84 Therefore now shall you° not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you° take their daughters to your sons.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.85: 85 Neither shall you° seek to have peace with them forever, that you° may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you° may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.86: 86 And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.87: 87 and did give to us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.88: 88 25 You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.89: 89 O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.90: 90 Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.91: 91 b And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.92: 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel 26 aloft.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.93: 93 Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the strangers, with their children,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.94: 94 like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.95: 95 Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.96: 96 So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.1: 9a Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib,

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.2: 2 and lodged there, and did eat no bread nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.3: 3 And there was made proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all those who were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.4: 4 and that whoever met not there within two or three days, according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from the multitude of those who were of the captivity.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.5: 5 And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem: this was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.6: 6 And all the multitude sat together trembling in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.7: 7 So Esdras arose up and said to them, you° have transgressed the law and married strange wives to increase the sins of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.8: 8 And now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers,

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.9: 9 and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.10: 10 Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Just as you have spoken, so will we do.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.11: 11 But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.12: 12 therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.13: 13 and with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.14: 14 Then Jonathan the son of Azael and 1 Ezekias the son of Thocanus accordingly took the matter upon them: and Mosollamus and Levis and Sabbateus were assessors to them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.15: 15 And those who were of the captivity did according to all these things.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.16: 16 And Esdras the priest chose to him principal men of their families, all by name: and on the new moon of the tenth month they were shut in together to examine the matter.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.17: 17 So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.18: 18 And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found;

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.19: 19 of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred; 2 Mathelas, and Eleazar, and 3 Joribus, and 4 Joadanus.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.20: 20 And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconciliation for their error.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.21: 21 And of the sons of Emmer; Ananias, and Zabdeus, and 5 Manes, and 6 Sameus, and 7 Hiereel, and 8 Azarias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.22: 22 And of the sons of 9 Phaisur; Elionas, Massias, Ishmael, and Nathanael, and 10 Ocidelus, and 11 Saloas.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.23: 23 And of the Levites; Jozabdus, and Semeis, and 12 Colius, who was called 13 Calitas, and 14 Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.26: 26 Of Israel, of the sons of 17 Phoros; 18 Hiermas, and 19 Ieddias, and Melchias, and 20 Maelus, and Eleazar, and 21 Asibas, and Banneas.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.27: 27 Of the sons of Ela; Matthanias, Zacharias, and 22 Jezrielus, and Oabdius, and Hieremoth, and 23 Aedias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.28: 28 And of the sons of 24 Zamoth; 25 Eliadas, 26 Eliasimus, 27 Othonias, Jarimoth, and 28 Sabathus, and 29 Zardeus.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.29: 29 Of the sons of Bebai; Joannes, and Ananias, and 30 Jozabdus, and 31 Ematheis.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.30: 30 Of the sons of 32 Mani; 33 Olamus, 34 Mamuchus, 35 Jedeus, Jasubas, and 36 Jasaelus, and Hieremoth.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.31: 31 And of the sons of Addi; Naathus, and Moossias, Laccunus, and Naidus, and Matthanias, and Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.32: 32 And of the sons of Annas; Elionas, and Aseas, and Melchias, and Sabbeus, and Simon Chosameus.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.33: 33 And of the sons of Asom; 37 Maltanneus, and 38 Mattathias, and 39 Sabanneus, Eliphalat, and Manasses, and Semei.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.34: 34 And of the sons of Baani; Jeremias, Momdis, Ismaerus, Juel, Mamdai, and Pedias, and Anos, Carabasion, and Enasibus, and Mamnitamenus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Someis, Selemias, Nathanias: and of the sons of Ezora; Sesis, Ezril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambri, Josephus.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.35: 35 And of the sons of Nooma; Mazitias, Zabadeas, Edos, Juel, Banaias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.36: 36 All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.37: 37 And the priests and Levites, and those who were of Israel, lived in Jerusalem, and in the country, on the new moon of the seventh month, and the children of Israel in their habitations.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.38: 38 b And the whole multitude were gathered together with one accord into the broad place before the porch of the temple toward the east:

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.39: 39 and they said to Esdras the priest and reader, Bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.40: 40 So Esdras the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude both of men and women, and to all the priests, to hear the law on the new moon of the seventh month.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.41: 41 And he read in the broad place before the porch of the temple from morning to mid-day, before both men and women; and 40 all the multitude gave heed to the law.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.42: 42 And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon the pulpit of wood, which was made for that purpose.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.43: 43 And there stood up by him Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Urias, 41 Ezekias, Baalsamus, upon the right hand:

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.44: 44 and upon his left hand, 42 Phaldeus, Misael, Melchias, 43 Lothasubus, Nabarias, Zacharias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.45: 45 Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude, and sat honorably in the first place before all.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.46: 46 And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God Most High, the God of armies, Almighty.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.47: 47 And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshiped the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.48: 48 Also Jesus, Annus, Sarabias, Iadinus, Jacubus, Sabateus, 44 Auteas, Maiannas, and Calitas, Azarias, and Jozabdus, and Ananias, Phalias, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, 45 and read to the multitude the law of the Lord, making them withal to understand it.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.49: 49 Then said Attharates to Esdras the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all,

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.50: 50 This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:)

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.51: 51 go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing;

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.52: 52 for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honor.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.53: 53 So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful.

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.54: 54 Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give portions to those who had nothing, and to make great cheer;

1 Esdras (Greek) 9.55: 55 because they 46 understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.

The Prayer of Manasses is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is included in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

Prayer of Manasses 1.1: 1O LORD Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

Prayer of Manasses 1.2: 2 who have made heaven and earth, with all the 1 ornament thereof;

Prayer of Manasses 1.3: 3 who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment; who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name;

Prayer of Manasses 1.5: 5 for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening toward sinners is importable:

Prayer of Manasses 1.6: 6 your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;

Prayer of Manasses 1.7: 7 for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and repent 2 of bringing evils upon men.

Prayer of Manasses 1.8: 8 3You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner:

Prayer of Manasses 1.9: 9 for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, 4 O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities.

Prayer of Manasses 1.10: 10 I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my head 5by reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: 6I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied 7detestable things.

Prayer of Manasses 1.11: 11 Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.

Prayer of Manasses 1.12: 12 I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities:

Prayer of Manasses 1.13: 13 but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, 8 O Lord, are the God of those who repent;

Prayer of Manasses 1.14: 14 and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy.

Prayer of Manasses 1.15: 15 And I will praise you forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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

This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though extra,1 composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath.

The Third Book of the Maccabees is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is considered to be apocrypha by most other church traditions.

3 Maccabees 1.1: 1Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped.

3 Maccabees 1.2: 2 And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war.

3 Maccabees 1.3: 3 But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.

3 Maccabees 1.4: 4 A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them each two minas of gold.

3 Maccabees 1.5: 5 It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.

3 Maccabees 1.6: 6 Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighboring cities, and encourage them.

3 Maccabees 1.7: 7 By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence.

3 Maccabees 1.8: 8 The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest-gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city.

3 Maccabees 1.9: 9 Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,

3 Maccabees 1.10: 10 he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself.

3 Maccabees 1.11: 11 And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.

3 Maccabees 1.12: 12 Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honor, I ought not to be.

3 Maccabees 1.13: 13 And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbade him?

3 Maccabees 1.14: 14 He was thoroughly answered by some one, That he did wrong to boast of this.

3 Maccabees 1.15: 15 Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?

3 Maccabees 1.16: 16 And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears,

3 Maccabees 1.17: 17 then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event.

3 Maccabees 1.18: 18 Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries.

3 Maccabees 1.19: 19 Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner.

3 Maccabees 1.20: 20 New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardor which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.

3 Maccabees 1.21: 21 Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.

3 Maccabees 1.22: 22 Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose.

3 Maccabees 1.23: 23 Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defense of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before.

3 Maccabees 1.25: 25 The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed.

3 Maccabees 1.26: 26 He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onward with the view of carrying out this design.

3 Maccabees 1.27: 27 Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness.

3 Maccabees 1.28: 28 Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued.

3 Maccabees 1.29: 29 Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.

3 Maccabees 2.1: 2Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication:

3 Maccabees 2.2: 2 O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who celebrates in his confidence and strength.

3 Maccabees 2.3: 3 It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence.

3 Maccabees 2.4: 4 It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood.

3 Maccabees 2.5: 5 It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceedingly iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone.

3 Maccabees 2.6: 6 You did make known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.

3 Maccabees 2.7: 7 And you rolled the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation.

3 Maccabees 2.8: 8 These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you the Almighty.

3 Maccabees 2.9: 9 You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honorable name.

3 Maccabees 2.10: 10 And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer.

3 Maccabees 2.12: 12 And when you did often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and delivered them out of gret dangers,

3 Maccabees 2.13: 13 see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

3 Maccabees 2.14: 14 We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty.

3 Maccabees 2.15: 15 Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men.

3 Maccabees 2.16: 16 But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory among your people Israel, you did sanctify this place.

3 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,

3 Maccabees 2.18: 18 We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.

3 Maccabees 2.19: 19 Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour.

3 Maccabees 2.20: 20 Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth.

3 Maccabees 2.21: 21 At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.

3 Maccabees 2.22: 22 Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.

3 Maccabees 2.23: 23 His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him.

3 Maccabees 2.24: 24 When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.

3 Maccabees 2.25: 25 He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness;

3 Maccabees 2.26: 26 and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will.

3 Maccabees 2.27: 27 His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it:

3 Maccabees 2.28: 28 That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;

3 Maccabees 2.29: 29 that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights.

3 Maccabees 2.30: 30 To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians.

3 Maccabees 2.31: 31 Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him.

3 Maccabees 2.32: 32 A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration:

3 Maccabees 2.33: 33 cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse.

3 Maccabees 3.1: 3On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.

3 Maccabees 3.2: 2 While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.

3 Maccabees 3.3: 3 Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty toward the kings,

3 Maccabees 3.4: 4 yet, as they worshiped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium;

3 Maccabees 3.5: 5 although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world.

3 Maccabees 3.6: 6 What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;

3 Maccabees 3.7: 7 who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them.

3 Maccabees 3.8: 8 Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favorable turn of affairs:

3 Maccabees 3.9: 9 He who knows all things, will not, said they, disregard so great a people.

3 Maccabees 3.10: 10 Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.

3 Maccabees 3.11: 11 Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.

3 Maccabees 3.12: 12 King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!

3 Maccabees 3.14: 14 Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you° know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigor, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation,

3 Maccabees 3.15: 15 we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.

3 Maccabees 3.16: 16 So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.

3 Maccabees 3.17: 17 To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honor it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts,

3 Maccabees 3.18: 18 they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.

3 Maccabees 3.19: 19 And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable.

3 Maccabees 3.20: 20 We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.

3 Maccabees 3.21: 21 Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.

3 Maccabees 3.22: 22 All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,

3 Maccabees 3.23: 23 have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.

3 Maccabees 3.24: 24 Having then, received certain proofs that these Jews bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.

3 Maccabees 3.25: 25 As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.

3 Maccabees 3.26: 26 For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis.

3 Maccabees 3.27: 27 Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.

3 Maccabees 3.28: 28 Whoever shall inform against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.

3 Maccabees 3.29: 29 Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.

3 Maccabees 4.1: 4Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly.

3 Maccabees 4.2: 2 The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them.

3 Maccabees 4.3: 3 What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation?

3 Maccabees 4.4: 4 They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion.

3 Maccabees 4.5: 5 A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.

3 Maccabees 4.6: 6 Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry instead of the marriage hymn.

3 Maccabees 4.7: 7 Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship.

3 Maccabees 4.8: 8 The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful celebration, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand.

3 Maccabees 4.9: 9 They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters.

3 Maccabees 4.10: 10 The planks of the deck above them blocked out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.

3 Maccabees 4.11: 11 They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; no, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.

3 Maccabees 4.12: 12 When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims,

3 Maccabees 4.13: 13 was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one bit milder) treatment.

3 Maccabees 4.14: 14 The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.

3 Maccabees 4.15: 15 The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.

3 Maccabees 4.16: 16 The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.

3 Maccabees 4.17: 17 At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration,

3 Maccabees 4.18: 18 inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work.

3 Maccabees 4.19: 19 The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said.

3 Maccabees 4.20: 20 They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose.

3 Maccabees 4.21: 21 Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven.

3 Maccabees 5.1: 5Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,

3 Maccabees 5.2: 2 he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense infused to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.

3 Maccabees 5.3: 3 The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most.

3 Maccabees 5.4: 4 The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually.

3 Maccabees 5.5: 5 The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about evening and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together.

3 Maccabees 5.6: 6 The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.

3 Maccabees 5.7: 7 they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power,

3 Maccabees 5.8: 8 to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them.

3 Maccabees 5.10: 10 Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mixed wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof.

3 Maccabees 5.11: 11 He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.

3 Maccabees 5.12: 12 By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified.

3 Maccabees 5.13: 13 But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles.

3 Maccabees 5.14: 14 The middle of the tenth hour had well near arrived, when the person who sent invitations, seeing the guests who were invited present, came and shook the king.

3 Maccabees 5.15: 15 He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him.

3 Maccabees 5.16: 16 The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him.

3 Maccabees 5.17: 17 This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet.

3 Maccabees 5.18: 18 Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and inquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day.

3 Maccabees 5.19: 19 Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends.

3 Maccabees 5.20: 20 The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.

3 Maccabees 5.21: 21 When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home.

3 Maccabees 5.22: 22 Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.

3 Maccabees 5.23: 23 The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade.

3 Maccabees 5.24: 24 The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.

3 Maccabees 5.25: 25 The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily.

3 Maccabees 5.26: 26 The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.

3 Maccabees 5.27: 27 The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, inquired the object of this earnest preparation.

3 Maccabees 5.28: 28 But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose.

3 Maccabees 5.29: 29 Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction.

3 Maccabees 5.30: 30 The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows:

3 Maccabees 5.31: 31 Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.

3 Maccabees 5.32: 32 Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.

3 Maccabees 5.33: 33 Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.

3 Maccabees 5.34: 34 The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations.

3 Maccabees 5.35: 35 The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him.

3 Maccabees 5.36: 36 Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.

3 Maccabees 5.37: 37 And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons?

3 Maccabees 5.38: 38 Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow.

3 Maccabees 5.39: 39 His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves:

3 Maccabees 5.40: 40 O king, how long do you make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions.

3 Maccabees 5.41: 41 For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.

3 Maccabees 5.42: 42 The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.

3 Maccabees 5.43: 43 He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there.

3 Maccabees 5.44: 44 Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.

3 Maccabees 5.45: 45 And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments.

3 Maccabees 5.46: 46 About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.

3 Maccabees 5.47: 47 The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned Jews.

3 Maccabees 5.48: 48 But the Jews, when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd,

3 Maccabees 5.49: 49 thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.

3 Maccabees 5.50: 50 Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the help previously granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and

3 Maccabees 5.51: 51 sent up an exceedingly great cry asking the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades.

3 Maccabees 6.1: 6And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:

3 Maccabees 6.2: 2 O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy,

3 Maccabees 6.3: 3 look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.

3 Maccabees 6.4: 4 You destroyed Pharaoh, with his army of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army.

3 Maccabees 6.5: 5 When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations.

3 Maccabees 6.6: 6 When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.

3 Maccabees 6.7: 7 It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light.

3 Maccabees 6.8: 8 When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.

3 Maccabees 6.9: 9 And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles.

3 Maccabees 6.10: 10 If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.

3 Maccabees 6.11: 11 Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.

3 Maccabees 6.12: 12 You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.

3 Maccabees 6.13: 13 Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob.

3 Maccabees 6.14: 14 The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you.

3 Maccabees 6.15: 15 Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfill this saying, O Lord.

3 Maccabees 6.16: 16 Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.

3 Maccabees 6.17: 17 When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.

3 Maccabees 6.18: 18 Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.

3 Maccabees 6.19: 19 And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.

3 Maccabees 6.20: 20 And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralyzed the vehemence of his spirit.

3 Maccabees 6.21: 21 They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.

3 Maccabees 6.22: 22 The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.

3 Maccabees 6.23: 23 For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,

3 Maccabees 6.24: 24 You° have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you° have labored to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.

3 Maccabees 6.25: 25 Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?

3 Maccabees 6.26: 26 Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will toward us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings?

3 Maccabees 6.27: 27 Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.

3 Maccabees 6.28: 28 Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.

3 Maccabees 6.29: 29 These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Savior.

3 Maccabees 6.30: 30 The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.

3 Maccabees 6.31: 31 Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

3 Maccabees 6.32: 32 Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

3 Maccabees 6.33: 33 So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him.

3 Maccabees 6.34: 34 Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.

3 Maccabees 6.35: 35 But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms.

3 Maccabees 6.36: 36 They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.

3 Maccabees 6.38: 38 They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days.

3 Maccabees 6.39: 39 The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.

3 Maccabees 6.40: 40 They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away.

3 Maccabees 6.41: 41 The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city.

3 Maccabees 7.1: 7King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.

3 Maccabees 7.2: 2 We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish.

3 Maccabees 7.3: 3 Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment.

3 Maccabees 7.4: 4 They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people.

3 Maccabees 7.5: 5 They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom.

3 Maccabees 7.6: 6 For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons;

3 Maccabees 7.7: 7 and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity toward us and toward our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge.

3 Maccabees 7.8: 8 And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past.

3 Maccabees 7.9: 9 For know you°, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare you° well.

3 Maccabees 7.10: 10 When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God.

3 Maccabees 7.11: 11 They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.

3 Maccabees 7.12: 12 The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions.

3 Maccabees 7.13: 13 Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed.

3 Maccabees 7.14: 14 Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;

3 Maccabees 7.15: 15 slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.

3 Maccabees 7.16: 16 They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Savior of Israel.

3 Maccabees 7.17: 17 Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days,

3 Maccabees 7.18: 18 they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home.

3 Maccabees 7.19: 19 They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.

3 Maccabees 7.20: 20 These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.

3 Maccabees 7.21: 21 They had more weight than before among their enemies; and were honored and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods.

3 Maccabees 7.22: 22 Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God made perfect wonders for their salvation.

The Second Book of Esdras is included in the Slavonic Bible as 3 Esdras, but is not found in the Greek Septuagint. It is included in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible as 4 Esdras. It is considered to be Apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.1: 1The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azaraias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salemas, the son of Sadoc, the son of Ahitob,

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.2: 2 the son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of Arna, the son of Ozias, the son of Borith, the son of Abissei, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar,

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.3: 3 the son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; which was captive in the land of the Medes, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.5: 5 Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children’s children:

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.6: 6 because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have done sacrifice to strange gods.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.7: 7 Did I not bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? but they have provoked me to wrath, and have despised my counsels.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.8: 8 Shake you then the hair of your head, and cast all evils upon them, for they have not been obedient to my law, but it is a rebellious people.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.9: 9 How long shall I forbear them, to whom I have done so much good?

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.10: 10 I have overthrown many kings for their sakes; I have struck down Pharoah with his servants and all his army.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.11: 11 I have destroyed all the nations before them, and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyre and Sidon, and have slain all their adversaries.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.13: 13 The Lord says, of a truth I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made for you highways; I gave you Moses for a leader, and Aaron for a priest.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.14: 14 I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have you° forgotten me, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.15: 15 The Lord Almighty says, The quails were for a token to you; I gave you a camp for your protection, nevertheless you° murmured there:

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.16: 16 and you° triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but ever to this day do you° yet murmur.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.17: 17 Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when you° were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you° not cry to me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.18: 18 saying, Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.19: 19 I had pity upon your mourning, and gave you manna for food; you° did eat angels’ bread.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.20: 20 When you° were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.21: 21 I divided among you fruitful lands; I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.22: 22 The Lord Almighty says, When you° were in the wilderness, at the bitter river, being thirsty, and blaspheming my name,

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.23: 23 I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.24: 24 What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and I will give my name to them, that they may keep my statutes.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.25: 25 Seeing you° have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you° ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.26: 26 Whenever you° shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you° have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.27: 27 You° have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.28: 28 The Lord Almighty says, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.29: 29 that you° would be my people, and I should be your God; that you° would be my children, and I should be your father?

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.30: 30 I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.31: 31 When you° offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.32: 32 I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you° have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.33: 33 The Lord Almighty says, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind does stubble.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.34: 34 And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment 1 to you, and done that which is evil before me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.35: 35 I will give your houses to a people that will come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.36: 36 They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.37: 37 I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.38: 38 And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east:

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.39: 39 to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,

2 Esdras (Latin) 1.40: 40 Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which is called also the angel of the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.1: 2The Lord says, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels at nothing.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.2: 2 The mother that bare them says to them, go your way, O my children; for I am a widow and forsaken.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.3: 3 I brought you up with gladness, and with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you° have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.4: 4 But what shall I now do to you? for I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.5: 5 As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant,

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.6: 6 that you bring them to confusion, and their mother to a plunder, that there may be no offspring of them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.7: 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be blotted out of the earth: for they have despised my 1 covenant.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.8: 8 Woe to you, Assur, you that hide the unrighteous with you! O you wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah;

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.9: 9 whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so I will also do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.10: 10 The Lord says to Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.11: 11 I will also take their glory me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.12: 12 They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savor; they shall neither labor, nor be weary.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.13: 13 2 Ask, and you° shall receive: pray for few days to you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.14: 14 Take heaven and earth to witness, take them to witness; for I have given up the evil, and created the good: for I live, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.15: 15 Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.16: 16 And I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs: for I 3 have known my name in them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.17: 17 Don’t be afraid, you mother of the children: for I have chosen you, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.18: 18 For your help I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.19: 19 and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill your children with joy.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.20: 20 Do right to the widow, judge the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.21: 21 heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.23: 23 Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.24: 24 Stay still, O my people, and take your rest, for your quietness shall come.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.25: 25 Nourish your children, O you good nurse, and establish their feet.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.26: 26 As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.27: 27 Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of suffering and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.28: 28 The nations shall envy you, but they shall be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.29: 29 My hands shall cover you, so that your children see not 4 hell.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.30: 30 Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.31: 31 Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the secret places of the earth, and show mercy to them: for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.32: 32 Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.33: 33 I Esdras received a charge from the Lord upon the mount Horeb, that I should go to Israel; but when I came to them, they would none of me, and rejected the commandment of the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.34: 34 And therefore I say to you, O you° nations, that hear and understand, look for your shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is near at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.35: 35 Be ready to the rewards of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.36: 36 Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.37: 37 O receive that which is given you of the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him that has called you to heavenly kingdoms.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.38: 38 Arise up and stand, and behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.39: 39 those who withdrew them from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments of the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.40: 40 5 Look upon your number, O Sion, and make up the reckoning of those of your that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.41: 41 The number of your children, whom you long for, is fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that your people, which have been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.42: 42 I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.43: 43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted. I marveled greatly at this.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.44: 44 So I asked the angel, and said, What are these, my Lord?

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.45: 45 He answered and said to me, These be those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.46: 46 Then said I to the angel, What young man is he that sets crowns upon them, and gives them palms in their hands?

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.47: 47 So he answered and said to me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend those who stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.

2 Esdras (Latin) 2.48: 48 Then the angel said to me, Go your way, and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord God you have seen.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.1: 3In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.2: 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.3: 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.4: 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the 1 dust.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.5: 5 and it 2 gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.6: 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.7: 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.8: 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t forbid them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.9: 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.10: 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.11: 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.12: 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.13: 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.14: 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.15: 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.16: 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.17: 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.18: 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did 3 shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the course of that age.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.19: 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.20: 20 And yet took you not away from them their 4 wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.21: 21 For the first Adam bearing a 5 wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.22: 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the 6 wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was 7 wicked abode still.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.23: 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.24: 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.25: 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.26: 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a 8 wicked heart:

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.27: 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.28: 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.29: 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.30: 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.31: 31 to any 9 how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.32: 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.33: 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound in wealth, and think not upon your commandments.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.34: 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.35: 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.36: 36 You shall find that men who may be reckoned by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.1: 4And the angel that was sent to me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer,

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.2: 2 and said to me, your heart has utterly failed you in regarding this world, and think you to comprehend the way of the Most High?

And he answered me, and said, I am sent to show you three ways, and to set forth three similitudes before you:

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.4: 4 whereof if you can declare me one, I also will show you the way that you desire to see, and I will teach you wherefore the heart is 1 wicked.

Then said he to me, Go to, weigh me a weight of fire, or measure me a 2 measure of wind, or call me again the day that is past.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.6: 6 Then answered I and said, who of the sons of men is able to do this, that you should ask me of such things?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.7: 7 And he said to me, If I had asked you, saying, How many dwellings are there in the heart of the sea? or how many springs are there at the fountain head of the deep? or how many 3 ways are above the firmament? or which are the exits 4 of hell? or which are the paths of paradise?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.8: 8 perhaps you would say to me, I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.9: 9 Nevertheless now have I asked you but only of the fire and wind, and of the day, things wherethrough you have passed, and 5 without which you can not be, and yet have you given me no answer of them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.10: 10 He said moreover to me, Your own things, that are grown up with you, can you not know;

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.11: 11 how then can your vessel comprehend the way of the Most High? and how can he that is already worn out with the corrupted world understand 6 incorruption?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.12: 12 7 And when I heard these things I fell upon my face, and said to him, It were better that we were not here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know wherefore.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.13: 13 He answered me, and said, 8 The woods of the trees of the field went forth, and took counsel together,

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.14: 14 and said, Come! Let’s go and make war against the sea, that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.15: 15 The waves of the sea also in like manner took counsel together, and said, Come! Let’s go up and subdue the wood of the plain, that there also we may make us another country.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.16: 16 The counsel of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it:

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.17: 17 likewise also the counsel of the waves of the sea, for the sand stood up and stopped them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.18: 18 If you were judge now between these two, whom would you justify, or whom condemn?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.19: 19 I answered and said, it is a foolish counsel that they both have taken, for the ground is given to the wood, and the place of the sea is given to bear his waves.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.20: 20 Then answered he me, and said, You have given a right judgement, and why judge you not in your own case?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.21: 21 For like as the ground is given to the wood, and the sea to his waves, even so those who dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he only that dwells above the heavens may understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.22: 22 Then answered I and said, I beseech you, O Lord, 9 wherefore is the power of understanding given to me?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.23: 23 For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily; because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and the people whom you have loved is given over to ungodly nations, and the law of our forefathers is made of none effect, and the written covenants are nowhere regarded,

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.24: 24 and we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is as a 10 vapor, neither are we worthy to obtain mercy.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.25: 25 What will he then do for his name whereby we are called? Of these things have I asked.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.26: 26 Then he answered me, and said, if you be alive you shall see, and if you live 11 long, you shall marvel; for the world hastens fast to pass away.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.27: 27 For it is not able to bear the things that are promised to the righteous in the times to come: for this world is full of sadness and infirmities.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.28: 28 For the evil 12 whereof you asked me is sown, but the gathering thereof is not yet come.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.29: 29 If therefore that which is sown be not reaped, and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, there can’t come the field where the good is sown.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.30: 30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much wickedness has it brought forth to this time! and how much shall it yet bring forth until the 13 time of threshing come!

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.31: 31 Ponder now by yourself, how great fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has brought forth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.32: 32 When the ears which are without number shall be sown, how great a floor shall they fill!

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.33: 33 Then I answered and said, 14 How long? and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.34: 34 And he answered me, and said, You do not hasten more than the Most High: for your haste is 15 for your own self, but he that is above hastens on behalf of many.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.35: 35 Did not the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long 16 are we here? when comes the fruit of the 17 threshing time of our reward?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.36: 36 And to them Jeremiel the archangel gave answer, and said, Even when the number is fulfilled of those who are like to you. For he has weighed the world in the balance;

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.37: 37 and by measure has he measured the times, and by number has he counted the seasons; and he shall not 18 move nor stir them, until the said measure be fulfilled.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.38: 38 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, yet even we all are full of impiety:

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.39: 39 and for our sakes perhaps it is that the 19 threshing time of the righteous is kept back, because of the sins of those who dwell upon the earth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.40: 40 So he answered me, and said, Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.42: 42 for like as a woman that travails makes haste to escape the anguish of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.43: 43 Then shall it be showed you concerning those things which you desire to see.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.44: 44 Then answered I and said, if I have found favor in your sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.45: 45 show me this also, whether there be more to come than is past, or whether the more part is gone over us.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.46: 46 For what is gone I know, but what is for to come I know not.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.47: 47 And he said to me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.48: 48 so I stood, and saw, and, behold, a hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened, that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.49: 49 After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained therein still.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.50: 50 Then said he to me, Consider with yourself; as the rain is more than the drops, and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity which is past did more exceed; but the drops and the smoke remained still.

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.51: 51 Then I prayed, and said, May I live, think you, until that time? or who shall be in those days?

2 Esdras (Latin) 4.52: 52 He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof you asked me, I may tell you of them in part: but as touching your life, I am not sent to show you; for I do not know it.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.1: 5Nevertheless as concerning the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken 1 with great amazement, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.2: 2 But iniquity shall be increased above that which now you see, or that you have heard long ago.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.3: 3 And the land, that you see now to have rule, shall be waste and 2 untrodden, and men shall see it desolate.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.4: 4 But if the Most High grant you to live, you shall see that which is after the third kingdom to be troubled; and the sun shall suddenly shine forth in the night, and the moon in the day:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.5: 5 and blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the peoples shall be troubled; and 3 their goings shall be changed:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.6: 6 and he shall rule, whom those who dwell upon the earth look not for, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.7: 7 and the Sodomite sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but all shall hear the voice thereof.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.8: 8 There shall be chaos also in many places, and the fire shall be often sent out, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and women shall bring forth monsters:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.9: 9 and salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into its chamber;

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.10: 10 and it shall be sought of many, and shall not be found: and unrighteousness and incontinency shall be multiplied upon earth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.11: 11 One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness, is a man that does righteousness, gone through you? And it shall say, No.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.12: 12 And it shall come to pass at that time that men shall hope, but shall not obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.13: 13 To show you such tokens I have leave; and if you will pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, you shall hear yet greater things than these.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.14: 14 Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.15: 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.16: 16 And in the second night it came to pass, that 4 Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, Where have you been? and why is your countenance sad?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.17: 17 or know you not that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.18: 18 Up then, and eat some bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd that leaves in the hands of cruel wolves.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.19: 19 Then said I to him, Go your ways from me, and come not near me for seven days, and then shall you come to me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.20: 20 And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.21: 21 And after seven days, so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.22: 22 and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.23: 23 and said, O Lord that bear rule, of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen you one vine:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.24: 24 and of all the lands of the world you have chosen you one 5 country: and of all the flowers of the world you have chosen you one lily:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.25: 25 and of all the depths of the sea you have filled you one river: and of all built cities you have hallowed Sion to yourself:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.26: 26 and of all the fowls that are created you have named you one dove: and of all the cattle that are made you have provided you one sheep:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.27: 27 and among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten you one people: and to this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved of all.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.28: 28 And now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and 6 have dishonored the one root above others, and have scattered your only one among many?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.29: 29 And they which did gainsay your promises have trodden them down that believed your covenants.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.30: 30 If you do so much hate your people, they should be punished with your own hands.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.31: 31 Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.32: 32 and said to me, Hear me, and I will instruct you; listen to me, and I shall tell you more.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.33: 33 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he to me, You are sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: love you that people better than he that made them?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.34: 34 And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins torment me every hour, while I labor to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgement.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.35: 35 And he said to me, You can not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord, or whereunto was I born? or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.36: 36 And he said to me, Number me those who are not yet come, gather me together the drops that are scattered abroad, make me the flowers green again that are withered,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.37: 37 open me the chambers that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, or show me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.38: 38 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that has not his dwelling with men?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.39: 39 As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.40: 40 Then said he to me, Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so can you not find out my judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.41: 41 And I said, But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who be in the end: and what shall they do that have been before us, or we that be now, or those who shall come after us?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.42: 42 And he said to me, I will liken my judgement to a ring: like as there is no slackness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.43: 43 So I answered and said, Couldest you not make them to be at once that have been made, and that be now, and that are for to come; that you might show your judgment the sooner?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.44: 44 Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the creator; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.45: 45 And I said, How have you said to your servant, that 7 you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? 8 If therefore they shall be alive at once, and the creature shall sustain them: even so it might now also support them to be present at once.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.46: 46 And he said to me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, If you bring forth ten children, why do you it at several times? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.47: 47 And I said, she can’t: but must do it by distance of time.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.48: 48 Then said he to me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown therein in their several times.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.49: 49 For like as a young child may not bring forth, neither she that is grown old bring forth any more, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.50: 50 And I asked, and said, Seeing you have now showed me the way, I will speak before you: Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? or does she now draw near to age?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.51: 51 He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that bears children, and she shall tell you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.52: 52 Say to her, wherefore are not they whom you have now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.53: 53 And she also shall answer you, They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and those who are born in the time of age, when the womb fails, are otherwise.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.54: 54 Consider therefore you also, how that you° are less of stature than those that were before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.55: 55 And so are those who come after you less than you°, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.56: 56 Then said I, Lord, I beseech you, if I have found favor in your sight, show your servant by whom you visit your creature.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.1: 6And he said to me, In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the portals of the world were fixed, or ever the gatherings of the winds blew,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.2: 2 before the voices of the thunder sounded and before the flashes of the lightning shone, or ever the foundations of paradise were laid,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.3: 3 before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the powers of the earthquake were established, before the innumerable army of angels were gathered together,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.4: 4 or ever the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, or ever the footstool of Sion 1 was established,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.5: 5 and before the present years were sought out, and or ever the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.6: 6 then did I consider these things, and they all were made through me alone, and through none other: as by me also they shall be ended, and by none other.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.7: 7 Then answered I and said, what shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that follows?

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.8: 8 And he said to me, From 2 Abraham to 3 Abraham, inasmuch as Jacob and Esau were born of him, for Jacob’s hand held the heel of Esau from the beginning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.9: 9 For Esau is the end of this world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that follows.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.10: 10 4 The beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek you nothing else, Esdras.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.11: 11 I answered then and said, O Lord that bear rule, If I have found favor in your sight,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.12: 12 I beseech you, show your servant the end of your tokens, whereof you showed me part the last night.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.13: 13 So he answered and said to me, Stand up upon your feet, and you shall hear a mighty sounding voice;

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.15: 15 when it speaks be you not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundations of the earth shall understand,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.16: 16 that the speech is of them: they shall tremble and be moved: for they know that their end must be changed.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.17: 17 And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet, and listened, and, behold, there was a voice that spoke, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.18: 18 And it said, Behold, the days come, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit those who dwell upon the earth,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.19: 19 and when I shall make inquisition of those who have done hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.20: 20 and when the seal shall be set upon the world that is to pass away, then I will show these tokens: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and all shall see together:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.21: 21 and the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children at three or four months, and they shall live, and dance.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.22: 22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.23: 23 and the trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man hears, they shall be suddenly afraid.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.24: 24 At that time shall friends make war one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the springs shall stand still, so that for three hours they shall not run.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.25: 25 And it shall be that whoever remains after all these things that I have told you of, he shall be saved, and shall see my salvation, and the end of my world.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.26: 26 And they shall see the men that have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.27: 27 For evil shall be blotted out, and deceit shall be quenched;

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.28: 28 and faith shall flourish, and corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, shall be declared.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.29: 29 And when he talked with me, behold, by little and little the place I stood on5 rocked to and fro.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.30: 30 And he said to me, These things came I to show you 6 this night.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.31: 31 If therefore you will pray yet again, and fast seven days more, I shall yet 7 tell you greater things than these.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.32: 32 For your voice has surely been heard before the Most High: for the Mighty has seen your righteous dealing, he has seen aforetime also your chastity, which you have had ever since your youth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.33: 33 And therefore has he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you, Be of good comfort, and fear not.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.34: 34 And be not hasty in regard of the former times, to think vain things, that you may not hasten in the latter times.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.35: 35 And it came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted seven days in like manner, that I might fulfill the three weeks which he told me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.36: 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the Most High.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.37: 37 For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in distress.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.38: 38 And I said, O Lord, of a truth you spoke at the beginning of the creation, upon the first day, and said thus; Let heaven and earth be made; and your word perfected the work.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.39: 39 And then was the spirit hovering, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet.8

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.40: 40 Then command you a ray of light to be brought forth of your treasures, that then your works might appear.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.41: 41 Upon the second day again you made the spirit of the firmament and commanded it to part asunder, and to make a division between the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.42: 42 Upon the third day you did command that the waters should be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth: six parts did you dry up, and keep them, to the intent that of these some being both planted and tilled might serve before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.43: 43 For as soom as your word went forth the work was done.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.44: 44 For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.45: 45 Upon the fourth day you commanded that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in their order:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.46: 46 and gave them a charge to do service to man, that was to be made.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.47: 47 Upon the fifth day you said to the seventh part, where the water was gathered together, that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass,

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.48: 48 that the mute water and without life brought forth living things as it was told, that the peoples might therefore praise your wondrous works.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.49: 49 Then did you preserve two living creatures, the one you calledst Behemoth, and the other you calledst Leviathan:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.50: 50 and you did separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.51: 51 To Behemoth you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in it, wherein are a thousand hills:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.52: 52 but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, namely, the moist; and you have kept them to be devoured of whom you will, and when.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.53: 53 But upon the sixth day you gave commandment to the earth, that it should bring forth before you cattle, beasts, and creeping things:

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.54: 54 and over these Adam, whom you ordain lord over all the works that you have made: of him come we all, the people whom you have chosen.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.55: 55 All this have I spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that for our sakes you made 9 this world.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.56: 56 As for the other nations, which also come of Adam, you have said that they are nothing, and are like to spittle: and you have likened the abundance of them to a drop that falls from a vessel.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.57: 57 And now, O Lord, behold these nations, which are reputed as nothing, be lords over us, and devour us.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.58: 58 But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only begotten, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands.

2 Esdras (Latin) 6.59: 59 If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess for an inheritance our world? How long shall this endure?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.1: 7And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent to me the angel which had been sent to me the nights before:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.2: 2 and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.3: 3 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be 1 broad and vast.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.4: 4 But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.5: 5 whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.6: 6 Another thing also: There is a city built and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.7: 7 but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.8: 8 and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.9: 9 If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.10: 10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.11: 11 Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.12: 12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, and sorrowful and toilsome: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and charged with great toils.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.13: 13 For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.14: 14 If then those who live enter not these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.15: 15 Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.16: 16 and why have you not considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.17: 17 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, behold, you have ordained in your law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.18: 18 The righteous therefore shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: but those who have done wickedly 2 have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.19: 19 And he said to me, 3 You are not a judge above God, neither have you understanding above the Most High.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.20: 20 Yes, rather let many that now be perish, than that the law of God which is set before them be despised.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.21: 21 For God straitly commanded such as came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.22: 22 Nevertheless they were not obedient to him; but spoke against him, and imagined for themselves vain things;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.23: 23 and framed cunning plans of wickedness; and said moreover of the Most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.24: 24 but they despised his law, and denied his covenants; they have not been faithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.25: 25 Therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.26: 26 For behold, the time shall come, and it shall be, when these tokens, of which I told you before, shall come to pass, that the bride shall appear, even the city coming forth, and she shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.27: 27 And whoever is delivered from the aforesaid evils shall see my wonders.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.28: 28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice those who remain four hundred years.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.29: 29 After these years shall my son Christ die of those who, and all that have the breath of 4 life.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.30: 30 And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the first beginning: so that no man shall remain.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.31: 31 And after seven days the world, that yet awakens not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corruptible.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.32: 32 And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in silence, and the 5 secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed to them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.33: 33 And the Most High shall be revealed upon the seat of judgement, 6 and compassion shall pass away, and patience shall be withdrawn:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.34: 34 but judgement only shall remain, truth shall stand, and faith shall wax strong:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.35: 35 and the work shall follow, and the reward shall be showed, and good deeds shall awake, and wicked deeds shall not sleep. 7

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.36: 36 And the 8 pit of torment shall appear, and near it shall be the place of rest: and the furnace of 9 shall be showed, and near it the paradise of delight.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.37: 37 And then shall the Most High say to the nations that are raised from the dead, See you° and understand whom you° have denied, or whom you° have not served, or whose commandments you° have despised.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.38: 38 Look on this side and on that: here is delight and rest, and there fire and torments. Thus 10 shall he speak to them in the day of judgement:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.39: 39 This is a day that has neither sun, nor moon, nor stars,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.40: 40 neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning, neither wind, nor water, nor air, neither darkness, nor evening, nor morning,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.41: 41 neither summer, nor spring, nor heat, nor 11 winter, neither frost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.42: 42 neither noon, nor night, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, save only the splendor of the glory of the Most High, whereby all shall see the things that are set before them:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.44: 44 This is my judgement and the ordinance thereof; but to you only have I showed these things.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.45: 45 And I answered, I said even then, O Lord, and I say now: blessed are those who are now alive and keep the statutes ordained of you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.46: 46 But as touching them for whom my prayer was made, what shall I say? for who is there of those who are alive that has not sinned, and who of the sons of men that has not transgressed your covenant?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.47: 47 And now I see, that the world to come shall bring delight to few, but torments to many.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.48: 48 For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these statutes, and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.49: 49 And he answered me, and said, Listen to me, and I will instruct you; and I will admonish you yet again:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.50: 50 for this cause the Most High has not made one world, but two.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.51: 51 For whereas you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the answer thereto.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.52: 52 If you have exceedingly few choice stones, 12 will you set for you near them according to their number things of lead and clay?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.54: 54 And he said to me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell you; entreat her, and she shall declare to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.55: 55 For you shall say to her, You bring forth gold and silver and brass, and iron also and lead and clay:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.56: 56 but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, lead than iron, and clay than lead.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.57: 57 Judge you therefore which things are precious and to be desired, what is abundant or what is rare.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.58: 58 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, that which is plentiful is of less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.59: 59 And he answered me, and said, 13 Weigh within yourself the things that you have thought, for he that has what is hard to get rejoices over him that has what is plentiful.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.60: 60 So also is the 14 judgement which I have promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved, inasmuch as these are those who have made my glory now to prevail, and of whom my name is now named.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.61: 61 And I will not grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like to vapor, and are become as flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are quenched.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.62: 62 And I answered and said, O you earth, wherefore have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of dust, like as all other created things?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.63: 63 For it were better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made therefrom.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.64: 64 But now the mind grows with us, and by reason of this we are tormented, because we perish and know it.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.65: 65 Let the race of men lament and the beasts of the field be glad; let all that are born lament, but let the four-footed beasts and the cattle rejoice.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.66: 66 For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not for judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.67: 67 For what does it profit us, that we shall be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.68: 68 For all that are born are 15 defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.69: 69 and if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it had been better for us.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.70: 70 And he answered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and all those who came of him, he first prepared the Judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.71: 71 And now understand from your own words, for you have said that the mind grows with us.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.72: 72 They therefore that dwell upon the earth shall be tormented for this reason, that having understanding they have done iniquity, and receiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law they dealt unfaithfully with that which they received.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.73: 73 What then will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.74: 74 For how great a time has the Most High been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.75: 75 And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.76: 76 And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with those who are scorners, nor count yourself with those who are tormented.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.77: 77 For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.78: 78 For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.79: 79 And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate those who fear 16 God,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.80: 80 these spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.81: 81 The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.82: 82 The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.83: 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have believed the covenants of the Most High.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.84: 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.85: 85 The fifth way, they shall see the dwelling places of the others guarded by angels, with great quietness.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.86: 86 The sixth way, they shall see 17 how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.87: 87 The seventh way, which is 18 more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with 19 shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.88: 88 Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.89: 89 In the time 20 that they lived therein they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.91: 91 First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.92: 92 The first order, because they have labored with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.93: 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaits them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.94: 94 The third order, they see the witness which he that fashioned them bears concerning them, that while they lived they kept the law which was given them in trust.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.95: 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which, being gathered in their chambers, they now enjoy with great quietness, guarded by angels, and the glory that awaits them in the last days.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.96: 96 The fifth order, they rejoice, seeing how they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall inherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness and the 21 painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.97: 97 The sixth order, when it is showed to them how their face shall shine as the sun, and how they shall be made like to the light of the stars, being henceforth incorruptible.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.98: 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with confidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in their lifetime they served, and from whom they shall receive their reward in glory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.99: 99 This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth 22 is announcer to them, and aforesaid are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.100: 100 And I answered and said, shall time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof you have spoken to me?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.101: 101 And he said, Their freedom shall be for seven days, that for seven days they may see the things whereof you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered together in their habitations.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.102: 102 And I answered and said, if I have found favor in your sight, show further to me your servant whether in the day of judgment the just will be able to intercede for the ungodly or to entreat the Most High for them,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.103: 103 whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or kindred for kindred, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or 23 friends for those who are most dear.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.104: 104 And he answered me, and said, Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also: The day of judgement is 24 a day of decision, and displays to all the seal of truth; even as now a father sends not his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave, or a 25 friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may 26 be sick, or sleep, or eat, or be healed:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.105: 105 so never shall anyone pray for another 27 in that day, neither shall one lay a burden on another, for then shall everyone will each bear his own righteousness or unrighteousness.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.106: 106 And I answered and said, How do we now find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.107: 107 and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of 28 Achar:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.108: 108 and Samuel 29 in the days of Saul; and David for the plague: and Solomon for those who should worship in the sanctuary:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.109: 109 and Elijah for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.110: 110 and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib: and many for many?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.111: 111 If therefore now, when corruption is grown up, and unrighteousness increased, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, wherefore shall it not be so then also?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.112: 112 He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains 30 not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.113: 113 But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, 31 and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is passed away,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.114: 114 intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, but righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.115: 115 Then shall no man be able to have mercy on him that is cast in judgement, nor to thrust down him that has gotten the victory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.116: 116 I answered then and said, this is my first and last saying, that it had been better that the earth had not given you Adam: or else, when it had given him, to have restrained him from sinning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.117: 117 For what profit is it for all that are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.118: 118 O you Adam, what have you done? For though it was you that sinned, the evil is not fallen on you alone, but upon all of us that come of you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.119: 119 For what profit is it to us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.120: 120 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves most miserably are become vain?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.121: 121 And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.122: 122 And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.123: 123 And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.125: 125 And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.126: 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not what we should have to suffer after death.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.127: 127 Then he answered and said, This is the 32 condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.128: 128 that, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.129: 129 For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.130: 130 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.131: 131 so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.132: 132 I answered then and said, I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.133: 133 and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.134: 134 and patient, for that he long suffers those that have sinned, as his creatures;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.135: 135 and bountiful, for that he is ready to give rather than to exact;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.136: 136 and of great mercy, for that he multiplies more and more mercies to those who are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.137: 137 (for if he multiplied not his mercies, the world would not continue with those who dwell therein;)

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.138: 138 and one that forgives, for if he didn’t forgive of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men would not remain living;

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.139: 139 and a judge, for if he didn’t pardon those who were created by his word, and blot out the multitude of 33 offences,

2 Esdras (Latin) 7.140: 140 there would perhaps be very few left in an innumerable multitude.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.1: 8And he answered me, and said, The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.2: 2 I will tell you now a similitude, Esdras; As when you asks the earth, it shall say to you, that it gives very much mold whereof earthen vessels are made, and little dust that gold comes of: even so is the course of the present world.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.4: 4 And I answered and said, Swallow down understanding then, O my soul, and let my heart devour wisdom.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.5: 5 For you 1 are come here without your will, and depart when you would not: for there is given you no longer space than only to live a short time.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.6: 6 O Lord, that are over us, suffer your servant, that we may pray before you, and give us seed to our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it, whereby every one shall live that is corrupt, who bears the 2 likeness of a man.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.7: 7 For you are alone, and we all one workmanship of your hands, like as you have said.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.8: 8 Forasmuch as you quicken the body that is fashioned now in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months does your workmanship endure your creature which is created in her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.9: 9 But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept 3 by your keeping: and when the womb gives up again that which has grown in it,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.10: 10 you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.11: 11 that the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you shall order it in your mercy.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.12: 12 Yes, you have brought it up in your righteousness, and nurtured it in your law, and corrected it with your judgement.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.13: 13 And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.14: 14 If therefore you shall 4 lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.15: 15 Now therefore I will speak; touching man in general, you know best; but touching your people I will speak, for whose sake I am sorry;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.16: 16 and for your inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for the seed of Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.17: 17 therefore I will begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.18: 18 but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.19: 19 Therefore hear my voice, and understand my saying, and I will speak before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.20: 20 O Lord, you who 5 remain forever, whose eyes are exalted, and whose chambers are in the air;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.21: 21 whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the army of angels stand with trembling,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.22: 22 6 at whose bidding they are changed to wind and fire; whose word is sure, and sayings constant; whose ordinance is strong, and commandment fearful;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.23: 23 whose look dries up the depths, and whose indignation makes the mountains to melt away, and whose truth bears witness:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.24: 24 hear, O Lord, the prayer of your servant, and give ear to the petition of your handiwork;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.25: 25 attend to my words, for so long as I live I will speak, and so long as I have understanding I will answer.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.26: 26 O look not upon the sins of your people; but on those who have served you in truth,

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.27: 27 Regard not the doings of those who deal wickedly, but of those who have kept your covenants in affliction.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.28: 28 Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before you; but remember them which have willingly known your fear.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.29: 29 Let it not be your will to destroy them which have lived like cattle; but look upon those who have 7 clearly taught your law.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.30: 30 Take you no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love those who have always put their trust in your glory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.31: 31 For we and our fathers have 8 passed our lives in 9 ways that bring death: but you because of us sinners 10 are called merciful.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.32: 32 For if you have a desire to have mercy upon us, then shall you be called merciful, to us, namely, that have no works of righteousness.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.33: 33 For the just, which have many good works laid up with you, shall for their own deeds receive reward.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.34: 34 For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter toward it?

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.35: 35 For in truth there is no man among those who are born, but he has dealt wickedly; and among them 11 that have lived there is none which have not done amiss.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.36: 36 For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and your goodness shall be declared, if you be merciful to them which have no store of good works.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.37: 37 Then answered he me, and said, Some things have you spoken aright, and according to your words so shall it come to pass.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.38: 38 For indeed I will not think on the fashioning of them which have sinned, or their death, their judgement, or their destruction;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.39: 39 but I will rejoice over the framing of the righteous, their pilgrimage also, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.41: 41 For as the husbandman sows much seed upon the ground, and plants many trees, and yet not all that is sown shall 12 come up in due season, neither shall all that is planted take root: even so those who are sown in the world shall not all be saved.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.42: 42 I answered then and said, if I have found favor, let me speak before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.43: 43 Forasmuch as the husbandman’s seed, if it come not up, seeing that it has not received your rain in due season, or if it be corrupted through too much rain, 13 so perishes;

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.44: 44 likewise man, which is formed with your hands, and is called your own image, because he is made like to you, for whose sake you have formed all things, even him have you made like to the husbandman’s seed.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.45: 45 Be not angry with us, but spare your people, and have mercy upon your inheritance; for you have mercy upon your own creation.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.46: 46 Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for those who now be, and things to come for such as shall be hereafter.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.47: 47 For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. Let this never be.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.49: 49 in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself worthy to be among the righteous, so as to be much glorified.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.50: 50 For many grievous miseries shall fall on those who in the last times dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.51: 51 But understand you for yourself, and of such as be like you seek out the glory.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.52: 52 For to you is paradise opened, the tree of life planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is built, and rest is 14 allowed, goodness is perfected, wisdom being perfect beforehand.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.53: 53 The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and 15 [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.54: 54 sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.55: 55 Therefore ask you no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.56: 56 For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.58: 58 and said in their heart, that there is no God; yes, and that knowing they must die.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.59: 59 For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.60: 60 but they which be created have themselves defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful to him which prepared life for them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.62: 62 which I have not showed to all men, but to you, and a few like you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 8.63: 63 Behold, O Lord, now have you showed me the multitude of the wonders, which you will do in the last times: but at what time, you have not showed me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.1: 9And he answered me, and said, Measure you diligently within yourself: and when you see that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told you beforehand,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.2: 2 then shall you understand, that it is the very time, wherein the Most High will visit the world which was made by him.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.3: 3 And when there shall be seen in the world earthquakes, disquietude of peoples, plans of nations, wavering of leaders, disquietude of princes,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.4: 4 then shall you understand, that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were aforetime from the beginning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.5: 5 For like as of all that is made in the world, the beginning 1 is evident, and the end manifest;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.6: 6 so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.7: 7 And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, or by faith, whereby he has believed,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.8: 8 shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.9: 9 Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and those who have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.10: 10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.11: 11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised 2 it,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.13: 13 And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, 4 they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.15: 15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.17: 17 And he answered me, saying, Just as the field is, so also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colors also; and such as the work is, such also is the 5 judgement on it; and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing floor also. For there was a time in the world,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.18: 18 even then when I was preparing for those who now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spoke against me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.19: 19 for 6 there was not any: but now they which are created in this world that is prepared, both 7 with a table that fails not, and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their manners.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.20: 20 So I considered my world, and, behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and, behold, it was in peril, because of the plans that had come into it.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.21: 21 And I saw, and spared them, but not greatly, and saved me a grape out of a cluster, and a plant out of 8 a great forest.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.22: 22 Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be saved, and my plant; for with great labor have I made them perfect.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.23: 23 Nevertheless if you will cease yet seven days more, (however you shall not fast in them,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.24: 24 but shall go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only of the flowers of the field; and you shall taste no flesh, and shall drink no wine, but shall eat flowers only;)

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.25: 25 and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.26: 26 So I went my way, like as he commanded me, into the field which is called 9 Ardat; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and its meat satisfied me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.27: 27 And it came to pass after seven days that I lay upon the grass, and my heart was vexed again, like as before:

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.28: 28 and my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Lord Most High, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.29: 29 O Lord, you did show yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treads and that bears no fruit;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.30: 30 and you did say, Hear me, you Israel; and mark my words, O seed of Jacob.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.31: 31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you° shall be glorified in it forever.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.32: 32 But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not the statutes: and the fruit of the law didn’t perish, neither could it, for it was your;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.33: 33 yet those who received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.34: 34 And, behold, it is a custom, that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.35: 35 or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain: yet with us it has not happened so.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.36: 36 For we that have received the law shall perish by sin, and our heart also which received it.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.37: 37 Notwithstanding the law perishes not, but remains in its honor.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.38: 38 And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked about me with my eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind, and her clothes were tore, and she had ashes upon her head.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.39: 39 Then let I my thoughts go wherein I was occupied, and turned me to her,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.40: 40 and said to her, Why do you weep? and why are you grieved in your mind?

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.41: 41 And she said to me, Let me alone, my Lord, that I may bewail myself, and add to my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.43: 43 She said to me, I your servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.44: 44 And every hour and every day these thirty years did I make my prayer to the Most High day and night.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.45: 45 And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me your handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my 10 neighbors: and we gave great honor to the Mighty.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.47: 47 So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.1: 10And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.2: 2 Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my 1 neighbors rose up to comfort me: and I remained quiet to the second day at night.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.3: 3 And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came here into this field, as you see.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.4: 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.5: 5 Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and answered her in anger, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.6: 6 You foolish woman above all other, see you not our mourning, and what has happened to us?

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.7: 7 how that Sion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.8: 8 2 It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but you sorrowest for one son.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.9: 9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.10: 10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.11: 11 Who then should make more mourning, 3 she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.12: 12 but if you say to me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.13: 13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.14: 14 then say I to you, Just as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.15: 15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.16: 16 For if you shall acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you shall both receive your son in time, and shall be praised among women.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.18: 18 And she said to me, “I won’t do that. I will not go into the city, but I will die here.”

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.20: 20 Do not so, but suffer yourself to be prevailed on by reason of the adversities of Sion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.21: 21 For you see that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.22: 22 our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.23: 23 and, what is more than all, the seal of Sion—for she has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.24: 24 You therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from you the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your travails.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.25: 25 And it came to pass, while I was talking with her, behold, her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was sore afraid 4 of her, and mused what this might be;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.26: 26 and, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.27: 27 And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared to me no more, but there was a city built, and a place showed itself from large foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.28: 28 Where is Uriel the angel, who came to me at the first? for he has caused me to fall into this great trance, and my end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.29: 29 And as I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come to me at the first came to me, and he looked upon me:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.30: 30 and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.31: 31 What ails you? and why are you so disquieted? and why is your understanding troubled, and the thoughts of your heart?

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.32: 32 And I said, Because you have forsaken me: yet I did according to your words, and went into the field, and, behold, I have seen, and yet see, that which I am not able to express.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.33: 33 And he said to me, Stand up like a man, and I will advise you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.34: 34 Then said I, Speak on, my Lord; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.35: 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.37: 37 Now therefore I beseech you to show your servant concerning this trance.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.38: 38 And he answered me, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform you, and tell you concerning the things whereof you are afraid: For the Most High has revealed many secret things to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.39: 39 He has seen that your way is right: for that you sorrowest continually for your people, and make great lamentation for Sion.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.41: 41 The woman which appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.42: 42 but now see you the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared to you a city in building:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.43: 43 and whereas she told you of the death of her son, this is the solution:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.44: 44 This woman, whom you saw, is 5 Sion, 6 whom you now see as a city built;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.45: 45 and whereas she said to you, that she has been thirty years barren, it is, because there were three 7 thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.46: 46 And it came to pass after three 8 thousand years that Solomon built the city, and offered offerings: then it was that the barren bare a son.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.47: 47 And whereas she told you that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.48: 48 And whereas she said to you, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.49: 49 And, behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has befallen her; 9 these were the things to be opened to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.50: 50 For now the Most High, seeing that you are grieved unfeignedly, and suffer from your whole heart for her, has showed you the brightness of her glory, and the attractiveness of her beauty:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.51: 51 and therefore I bade you remain in the field where no house was built:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.52: 52 for I knew that the Most High would show this to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.53: 53 Therefore I commanded you to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.54: 54 For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be showed, the work of no man’s building could stand.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.55: 55 Therefore fear you not, nor let your heart be affrighted, but go your way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as your eyes be able to see:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.56: 56 and then shall you hear as much as your ears may comprehend.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.57: 57 For you are blessed above many, and with the Most High are called by name, like as but few.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.59: 59 and so shall the Most High show you those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do to those who dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.1: 11And it came to pass the second night that I saw a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.2: 2 And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of heaven blew on her, 1 and the clouds were gathered together against her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.3: 3 And I saw, and out of her wings there grew other wings near them; and they became little wings and small.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.4: 4 But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other heads, yet rested it with them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.5: 5 Moreover I saw, and, behold, the eagle flew with her wings, to reign over the earth, and over those who dwell therein.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.6: 6 And I saw how all things under heaven were subject to her, and no man spoke against her, no, not one creature upon earth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.7: 7 And I saw, and, behold, the eagle rose upon her talons, and uttered her voice to her wings, saying,

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.8: 8 Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.10: 10 And I saw, and, behold, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst of her body.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.11: 11 And I counted 2 her wings that were near the other, and, behold, there were eight of them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.12: 12 And I saw, and, behold, on the right side there arose one wing, and reigned over all the earth;

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.13: 13 and so it was, that when it reigned, the end of it came, and it appeared not, so that the place thereof appeared no more: and the next following rose up, and reigned, and it ruled a great time;

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.14: 14 and it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came also, so that it appeared no more, like as the first.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.16: 16 Hear you that have borne rule over the earth all this time: this I proclaim to you, before you shall appear no more,

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.17: 17 There shall none after you attain to your time, neither to the half thereof.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.18: 18 Then arose the third, and had the rule as the others before, and it also appeared no more.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.19: 19 So went it with all the wings one after another, as that every one bare rule, and then appeared no more.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.20: 20 And I saw, and, behold, in process of time the 3 wings that followed were set up upon the 4 right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.22: 22 After this I saw, and, behold, the twelve wings appeared no more, nor two of the little wings:

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.23: 23 and there was no more left upon the eagle’s body, but the three heads that rested, and six little wings.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.24: 24 And I saw, and, behold, two little wings divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: but four remained in their place.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.25: 25 And I saw, and, behold, these 5 under wings thought to set up themselves, and to have the rule.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.26: 26 And I saw, and, behold, there was one set up, but within a while it appeared no more.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.27: 27 A second also, and it was sooner away than the first.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.28: 28 And I saw, and, behold, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign:

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.29: 29 and while they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, namely, it that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two other heads.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.31: 31 And, behold, the head was turned with those who were with it, and did eat up the two 6 under wings that thought to have reigned.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.32: 32 But this head held the whole earth in possession, and bare rule over those that dwell therein with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.33: 33 And after this I saw, and, behold, the head also that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.34: 34 But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort reigned over the earth, and over those that dwell therein.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.35: 35 And I saw, and, behold, the head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.36: 36 Then I heard a voice, which said to me, Look before you, and consider the thing that you see.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.37: 37 And I saw, and, behold, as it were a lion roused out of the wood roaring: and I heard how that he sent out a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.38: 38 Hear you, I will talk with you, and the Most High shall say to you,

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.39: 39 Are not you it that remain of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of my times might come through them?

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.40: 40 And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and held the world in governance with great trembling, and the whole compass of the earth with grievous oppression; and so long time lived he upon the earth with deceit.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.42: 42 For you have afflicted the meek, you have hurt the peaceful, you have hated those who speak truth, you have loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of those who brought forth fruit, and cast down the walls of such as did you no harm.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.43: 43 Therefore is your insolent dealing come up to the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.44: 44 The Most High also has looked upon his times, and, behold, they are ended, and his ages are fulfilled.

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.45: 45 And therefore appear no more, you eagle, nor your horrible wings, nor your evil little wings, nor your cruel heads, nor your hurtful talons, nor all your vain body:

2 Esdras (Latin) 11.46: 46 that all the earth may be refreshed, and be eased, being delivered from your violence, and that she may hope for the judgement and mercy of him that made her.

The Fourth Book of the Maccabees appears in an appendix to the Greek Septuagint. It is considered to be apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.

4 Maccabees 1.1: 1As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy.

4 Maccabees 1.2: 2 For reason is necessary to every one as a step to science: and more especially does it embrace the praise of prudence, the highest virtue.

4 Maccabees 1.3: 3 If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust,

4 Maccabees 1.4: 4 it surely also and manifestly has the rule over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice; and of those which are hindrances to manliness, as wrath, and pain, and fear.

4 Maccabees 1.5: 5 How, then, is it, perhaps some may say, that reasoning, if it rule the affections, is not also master of forgetfulness and ignorance? They attempt a ridiculous argument.

4 Maccabees 1.6: 6 For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.

4 Maccabees 1.7: 7 I might prove to you, from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions;

4 Maccabees 1.8: 8 but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven kindred, and their mother, who suffered death in defense of virtue.

4 Maccabees 1.9: 9 For all these, treating pains with contempt even to death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.

4 Maccabees 1.10: 10 For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honors, I may count them happy.

4 Maccabees 1.11: 11 For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.

4 Maccabees 1.12: 12 But we may now at once enter upon the question, having commenced, as is our wont, with laying down the doctrine, and so proceed to the account of these persons, giving glory to the all wise God.

4 Maccabees 1.13: 13 The question, therefore, is, whether reasoning be absolute master of the passions.

4 Maccabees 1.14: 14 Let’s determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?

4 Maccabees 1.15: 15 Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom.

4 Maccabees 1.16: 16 And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.

4 Maccabees 1.17: 17 And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably.

4 Maccabees 1.18: 18 And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.

4 Maccabees 1.19: 19 The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions.

4 Maccabees 1.20: 20 Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.

4 Maccabees 1.21: 21 And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.

4 Maccabees 1.24: 24 Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him.

4 Maccabees 1.25: 25 And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.

4 Maccabees 1.26: 26 In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.

4 Maccabees 1.27: 27 In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony.

4 Maccabees 1.28: 28 As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

4 Maccabees 1.29: 29 And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.

4 Maccabees 1.30: 30 For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions.

4 Maccabees 1.32: 32 But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway.

4 Maccabees 1.33: 33 For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.

4 Maccabees 1.34: 34 Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water-animals and birds, and four-footed beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning.

4 Maccabees 1.35: 35 For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning.

4 Maccabees 2.1: 2And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,

4 Maccabees 2.2: 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.

4 Maccabees 2.3: 3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.

4 Maccabees 2.4: 4 And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

4 Maccabees 2.5: 5 For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.

4 Maccabees 2.6: 6 Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.

4 Maccabees 2.7: 7 Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

4 Maccabees 2.8: 8 A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, immediately puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.

4 Maccabees 2.9: 9 And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.

4 Maccabees 2.10: 10 For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

4 Maccabees 2.11: 11 And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.

4 Maccabees 2.12: 12 And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.

4 Maccabees 2.13: 13 And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.

4 Maccabees 2.14: 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.

4 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.

4 Maccabees 2.16: 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

4 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.

4 Maccabees 2.18: 18 For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.

4 Maccabees 2.19: 19 For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

4 Maccabees 2.20: 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.

4 Maccabees 2.21: 21 For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.

4 Maccabees 2.22: 22 And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.

4 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.

4 Maccabees 2.24: 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?

4 Maccabees 3.1: 3The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body,

4 Maccabees 3.2: 2 in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it.

4 Maccabees 3.3: 3 One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger.

4 Maccabees 3.4: 4 Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice.

4 Maccabees 3.5: 5 For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions.

4 Maccabees 3.6: 6 And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David.

4 Maccabees 3.7: 7 For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them;

4 Maccabees 3.8: 8 then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire army of our ancestors was encamped.

4 Maccabees 3.10: 10 but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

4 Maccabees 3.11: 11 but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.

4 Maccabees 3.12: 12 Wherefore his bodyguards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, reverencing the desire of the king, put on their panoplies, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies:

4 Maccabees 3.13: 13 and unperceived by the guardians of the gate, they went throughout the whole camp of the enemy in quest.

4 Maccabees 3.14: 14 And having boldly discovered the fountain, they filled out of it the draught for the king.

4 Maccabees 3.15: 15 But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood, would be terribly dangerous to his soul.

4 Maccabees 3.16: 16 Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God.

4 Maccabees 3.17: 17 For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement,

4 Maccabees 3.18: 18 and to wrestle down the pains of the body, however excessive; and, through the excellency of reasoning, to abominate all the assaults of the passions.

4 Maccabees 3.19: 19 But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history.

4 Maccabees 3.20: 20 For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law, and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government,

4 Maccabees 3.21: 21 then certain persons, bringing in new things contrary to the general unanimity, in various ways fell into calamities.

4 Maccabees 4.1: 4For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honorable and good man, after slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.

4 Maccabees 4.2: 2 Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phoenicia, and Cilicia, he said,

4 Maccabees 4.3: 3 Having good will to the king’s affairs, I am come to inform you that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to king Seleucus.

4 Maccabees 4.4: 4 Apollonius, acquainting himself with the particulars of this, praised Simon for his care of the king’s interests, and going up to Seleucus informed him of the treasure;

4 Maccabees 4.5: 5 and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force,

4 Maccabees 4.6: 6 he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure.

4 Maccabees 4.7: 7 And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.

4 Maccabees 4.9: 9 And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,

4 Maccabees 4.10: 10 and Appolonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure, —there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armor, filling them with much fear and trembling.

4 Maccabees 4.11: 11 And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly army.

4 Maccabees 4.12: 12 For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place.

4 Maccabees 4.13: 13 Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that king Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;

4 Maccabees 4.14: 14 and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him.

4 Maccabees 4.15: 15 But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of arrogant pride and terrible.

4 Maccabees 4.16: 16 Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest:

4 Maccabees 4.17: 17 who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.

4 Maccabees 4.18: 18 And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation.

4 Maccabees 4.19: 19 And he both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness.

4 Maccabees 4.20: 20 So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, but neglected the guardianship of the temple.

4 Maccabees 4.21: 21 At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them.

4 Maccabees 4.22: 22 For being at war with Ptolemy in Egypt, he heard that on a report of his death being spread abroad, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had exceedingly rejoiced, and he quickly marched against them.

4 Maccabees 4.23: 23 And having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the laws of his country he should die.

4 Maccabees 4.24: 24 And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect,

4 Maccabees 4.25: 25 for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment.

4 Maccabees 4.26: 26 When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures every one of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to renounce the Jewish religion.

4 Maccabees 5.1: 5The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him,

4 Maccabees 5.2: 2 commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s flesh, and things offered to idols.

4 Maccabees 5.3: 3 And should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel, and so killed.

4 Maccabees 5.4: 4 And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king’s followers, was brought near to him.

4 Maccabees 5.6: 6 I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.

4 Maccabees 5.7: 7 For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?

4 Maccabees 5.8: 8 It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature.

4 Maccabees 5.9: 9 And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth.

4 Maccabees 5.10: 10 And you will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment.

4 Maccabees 5.11: 11 Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?

4 Maccabees 5.12: 12 and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years?

4 Maccabees 5.13: 13 For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.

4 Maccabees 5.14: 14 While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.

4 Maccabees 5.15: 15 And having received power to speak, he began deliver himself like this:

4 Maccabees 5.16: 16 We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;

4 Maccabees 5.17: 17 wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.

4 Maccabees 5.18: 18 And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.

4 Maccabees 5.20: 20 For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;

4 Maccabees 5.22: 22 But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.

4 Maccabees 5.23: 23 Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.

4 Maccabees 5.24: 24 And it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we render what is due; and it teaches us piety, so that we worship the one only God becomingly.

4 Maccabees 5.25: 25 Wherefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathizes with our nature.

4 Maccabees 5.26: 26 Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted.

4 Maccabees 5.27: 27 But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat:

4 Maccabees 5.29: 29 nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.

4 Maccabees 5.31: 31 I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defense of my religion.

4 Maccabees 5.33: 33 I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country.

4 Maccabees 5.34: 34 I will not belie you, O law, my instructor! or forsake you, O beloved self-control!

4 Maccabees 5.35: 35 I will not put you to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny you, O honored priesthood, and science of the law.

4 Maccabees 5.36: 36 Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.

4 Maccabees 5.37: 37 My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death.

4 Maccabees 5.38: 38 For over the ungodly you shall tyrannize; but you shall not lord it over my thoughts about religion, either by your arguments, or through deeds.

4 Maccabees 6.1: 6When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.

4 Maccabees 6.2: 2 And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety.

4 Maccabees 6.3: 3 Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;

4 Maccabees 6.5: 5 But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.

4 Maccabees 6.6: 6 But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.

4 Maccabees 6.7: 7 And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.

4 Maccabees 6.8: 8 then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright.

4 Maccabees 6.9: 9 But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;

4 Maccabees 6.10: 10 and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.

4 Maccabees 6.11: 11 His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage.

4 Maccabees 6.13: 13 partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,

4 Maccabees 6.14: 14 Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?

4 Maccabees 6.15: 15 We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s flesh.

4 Maccabees 6.16: 16 And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,

4 Maccabees 6.17: 17 Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;

4 Maccabees 6.18: 18 for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,

4 Maccabees 6.19: 19 and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.

4 Maccabees 6.20: 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,

4 Maccabees 6.21: 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.

4 Maccabees 6.22: 22 Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

4 Maccabees 6.24: 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:

4 Maccabees 6.25: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.

4 Maccabees 6.26: 26 And he being at length burned down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said,

4 Maccabees 6.27: 27 You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.

4 Maccabees 6.28: 28 Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.

4 Maccabees 6.29: 29 Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.

4 Maccabees 6.30: 30 Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

4 Maccabees 6.31: 31 Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.

4 Maccabees 6.32: 32 For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.

4 Maccabees 6.33: 33 But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.

4 Maccabees 6.34: 34 And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.

4 Maccabees 6.35: 35 Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them.

4 Maccabees 7.1: 7The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,

4 Maccabees 7.2: 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,

4 Maccabees 7.3: 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death.

4 Maccabees 7.4: 4 Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.

4 Maccabees 7.5: 5 For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.

4 Maccabees 7.6: 6 O priest worthy of the priesthood! you didn’t pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.

4 Maccabees 7.7: 7 O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!

4 Maccabees 7.8: 8 Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death.

4 Maccabees 7.9: 9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.

4 Maccabees 7.10: 10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!

4 Maccabees 7.11: 11 For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,

4 Maccabees 7.12: 12 so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, didn’t give up his reasoning.

4 Maccabees 7.13: 13 And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labors of his body were now spent, and his muscles were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.

4 Maccabees 7.14: 14 By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.

4 Maccabees 7.15: 15 O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.

4 Maccabees 7.16: 16 If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.

4 Maccabees 7.17: 17 But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

4 Maccabees 7.18: 18 But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh;

4 Maccabees 7.19: 19 they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.

4 Maccabees 7.20: 20 This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:

4 Maccabees 7.21: 21 since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,

4 Maccabees 7.22: 22 and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

4 Maccabees 7.24: 24 Whence it is, that even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures:

4 Maccabees 7.25: 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,—

4 Maccabees 8.1: 8Then, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously.

4 Maccabees 8.2: 2 The tyrant having given this charge, seven kindred were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and well-born, and altogether comely.

4 Maccabees 8.3: 3 When the tyrant saw them encircling their mother as in a dance, he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and innocent manner, smiled upon them, and calling them near, said:

4 Maccabees 8.4: 4 O youths, with favorable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of kindred, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before,

4 Maccabees 8.5: 5 but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

4 Maccabees 8.6: 6 Put confidence in me, then, and you shall receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national ordinance,

4 Maccabees 8.7: 7 and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth’s delights.

4 Maccabees 8.8: 8 For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.

4 Maccabees 8.9: 9 Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and attractive appearance.

4 Maccabees 8.10: 10 Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?

4 Maccabees 8.11: 11 Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.

4 Maccabees 8.12: 12 And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapults, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue:

4 Maccabees 8.13: 13 Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you° worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.

4 Maccabees 8.14: 14 Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power.

4 Maccabees 8.15: 15 Now let’s consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly among them, what reasoning would they have employed but these?

4 Maccabees 8.16: 16 O wretched that we are, and exceedingly senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?

4 Maccabees 8.17: 17 Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death?

4 Maccabees 8.18: 18 Shall we not fear, O kindred, the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride?

4 Maccabees 8.19: 19 Let’s have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.

4 Maccabees 8.21: 21 And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity.

4 Maccabees 8.22: 22 Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?

4 Maccabees 8.23: 23 Let’s not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.

4 Maccabees 8.24: 24 The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.

4 Maccabees 8.25: 25 Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?

4 Maccabees 8.26: 26 But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.

4 Maccabees 8.27: 27 For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains.

4 Maccabees 8.28: 28-29 So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:

4 Maccabees 8.29: 28-29 So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:

4 Maccabees 9.1: 9Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are more ready to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.

4 Maccabees 9.2: 2 And we should be disgracing our fathers if we didn’t obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.

4 Maccabees 9.3: 3 O tyrant, counselor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves.

4 Maccabees 9.5: 5 And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.

4 Maccabees 9.6: 6 But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.

4 Maccabees 9.7: 7 Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if you put us to death for our religion, think not that you harm us by torturing us.

4 Maccabees 9.8: 8 For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.

4 Maccabees 9.9: 9 But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.

4 Maccabees 9.10: 10 When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful.

4 Maccabees 9.11: 11 So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the oldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.

4 Maccabees 9.12: 12 And when they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.

4 Maccabees 9.13: 13 And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.

4 Maccabees 9.14: 14 And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation,

4 Maccabees 9.15: 15 O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom you thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.

4 Maccabees 9.16: 16 And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,—

4 Maccabees 9.17: 17 he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.

4 Maccabees 9.18: 18 For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue.

4 Maccabees 9.19: 19 While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.

4 Maccabees 9.20: 20 And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine.

4 Maccabees 9.21: 21 And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth didn’t groan.

4 Maccabees 9.22: 22 But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying

4 Maccabees 9.23: 23 Imitate me, O kindred, nor ever desert your station, nor renounce my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion;

4 Maccabees 9.24: 24 by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.

4 Maccabees 9.25: 25 And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.

4 Maccabees 9.26: 26 And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt.

4 Maccabees 9.27: 27 And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,

4 Maccabees 9.28: 28 after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,

4 Maccabees 9.29: 29 How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,

4 Maccabees 9.30: 30 Thinkest you not, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our perseverance in behalf of our religion?

4 Maccabees 9.31: 31 For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue.

4 Maccabees 9.32: 32 But you are tortured with threatenings for impiety; and you shall not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.

4 Maccabees 10.1: 10Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.

4 Maccabees 10.2: 2 But he cried out and said, Know you° not, that the father of those who are dead, became the father of me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets?

4 Maccabees 10.4: 4 Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance you° have, apply it to my body, for you° are not able to touch, even if you° wish it, my soul.

4 Maccabees 10.5: 5 But they, highly incensed at his boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him.

4 Maccabees 10.6: 6 And they dragged round his fingers, and his arms, and his legs, and his ankles.

4 Maccabees 10.7: 7 And not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers and then dragged him to the wheel;

4 Maccabees 10.8: 8 around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails.

4 Maccabees 10.10: 10 We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue.

4 Maccabees 10.11: 11 But you, for your impiety and blood shedding, shall endure indissoluble torments.

4 Maccabees 10.12: 12 And thus having died worthily of his kindred, they dragged forward the fourth, saying,

4 Maccabees 10.13: 13 Do not you share the madness of your kindred: but give regard to the king, and save yourself.

4 Maccabees 10.14: 14 But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward.

4 Maccabees 10.15: 15 By the blessed death of my kindred, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.

4 Maccabees 10.16: 16 Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.

4 Maccabees 10.17: 17 When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out.

4 Maccabees 10.18: 18 But he said, Even if you take away the organ of speech, yet God hears the silent.

4 Maccabees 10.19: 19 Behold, my tongue is extended, cut it off; for not for that halt you extirpate our reasoning.

4 Maccabees 10.21: 21 But God shall speedily find you, since you cut off the tongue, the instrument of divine melody.

4 Maccabees 11.1: 11And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,

4 Maccabees 11.2: 2 I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue.

4 Maccabees 11.3: 3 But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes.

4 Maccabees 11.4: 4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?

4 Maccabees 11.5: 5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

4 Maccabees 11.7: 7 had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.

4 Maccabees 11.8: 8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.

4 Maccabees 11.9: 9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:

4 Maccabees 11.10: 10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.

4 Maccabees 11.11: 11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,

4 Maccabees 11.12: 12 A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

4 Maccabees 11.13: 13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,

4 Maccabees 11.14: 14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;

4 Maccabees 11.15: 15 for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.

4 Maccabees 11.16: 16 So that if you° think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!

4 Maccabees 11.18: 18 Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.

4 Maccabees 11.19: 19 And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.

4 Maccabees 11.20: 20 And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we kindred have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.

4 Maccabees 11.22: 22 Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my kindred.

4 Maccabees 11.23: 23 I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.

4 Maccabees 11.25: 25 For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction?

4 Maccabees 11.26: 26 Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless.

4 Maccabees 11.27: 27 For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.

4 Maccabees 12.1: 12When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the cauldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:

4 Maccabees 12.2: 2 whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his kindred,

4 Maccabees 12.3: 3 seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,

4 Maccabees 12.4: 4 You see the end of the madness of your kindred: for they have died in torture through disobedience; and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely.

4 Maccabees 12.5: 5 But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom.

4 Maccabees 12.6: 6 And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient.

4 Maccabees 12.7: 7 And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) says,

4 Maccabees 12.8: 8 Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends.

4 Maccabees 12.9: 9 And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.

4 Maccabees 12.11: 11 Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, were you not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to kill His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?

4 Maccabees 12.12: 12 Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time.

4 Maccabees 12.13: 13 Were you not ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?

4 Maccabees 12.14: 14 But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion toward God.

4 Maccabees 12.15: 15 But you shall groan according to your deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue.

4 Maccabees 12.18: 18 And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.

4 Maccabees 12.20: 20 Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired.

Daniel (Greek) 1.1: 1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

Daniel (Greek) 1.2: 2 The Lord1 gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; 2 and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

Daniel (Greek) 1.3: 3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring3 and of the nobles;

Daniel (Greek) 1.4: 4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

Daniel (Greek) 1.5: 5 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

Daniel (Greek) 1.6: 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Daniel (Greek) 1.7: 7 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

Daniel (Greek) 1.8: 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Daniel (Greek) 1.9: 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

Daniel (Greek) 1.10: 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”

Daniel (Greek) 1.11: 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

Daniel (Greek) 1.12: 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

Daniel (Greek) 1.13: 13 Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.”

Daniel (Greek) 1.14: 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

Daniel (Greek) 1.15: 15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

Daniel (Greek) 1.16: 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.

Daniel (Greek) 1.17: 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Daniel (Greek) 1.18: 18 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel (Greek) 1.19: 19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Daniel (Greek) 1.20: 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Daniel (Greek) 2.1: 2In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

Daniel (Greek) 2.2: 2 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

Daniel (Greek) 2.3: 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.4: 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.5: 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.

Daniel (Greek) 2.6: 6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.7: 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.8: 8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.

Daniel (Greek) 2.9: 9 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.10: 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

Daniel (Greek) 2.11: 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.12: 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Daniel (Greek) 2.13: 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

Daniel (Greek) 2.14: 14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel (Greek) 2.15: 15 He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

Daniel (Greek) 2.16: 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

Daniel (Greek) 2.17: 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

Daniel (Greek) 2.18: 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel (Greek) 2.19: 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

for you have made known to us the king’s matter.” Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.24: 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.25: 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.26: 26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”

Daniel (Greek) 2.27: 27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;

Daniel (Greek) 2.28: 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

Daniel (Greek) 2.29: 29 “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.

Daniel (Greek) 2.30: 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

Daniel (Greek) 2.31: 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold,1 a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.

Daniel (Greek) 2.32: 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

Daniel (Greek) 2.33: 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

Daniel (Greek) 2.34: 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Daniel (Greek) 2.35: 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Daniel (Greek) 2.36: 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

Daniel (Greek) 2.37: 37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

Daniel (Greek) 2.38: 38 Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

Daniel (Greek) 2.39: 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

Daniel (Greek) 2.40: 40 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.

Daniel (Greek) 2.41: 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

Daniel (Greek) 2.42: 42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.

Daniel (Greek) 2.43: 43 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.

Daniel (Greek) 2.44: 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

Daniel (Greek) 2.45: 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.46: 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.

Daniel (Greek) 2.47: 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”

Daniel (Greek) 2.48: 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel (Greek) 2.49: 49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

Daniel (Greek) 3.1: 3Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,1 and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel (Greek) 3.2: 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel (Greek) 3.3: 3 Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Daniel (Greek) 3.4: 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel (Greek) 3.5: 5 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

Daniel (Greek) 3.6: 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

Daniel (Greek) 3.7: 7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel (Greek) 3.8: 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Daniel (Greek) 3.9: 9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.10: 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;

Daniel (Greek) 3.11: 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

Daniel (Greek) 3.12: 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Daniel (Greek) 3.13: 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Daniel (Greek) 3.14: 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

Daniel (Greek) 3.15: 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel (Greek) 3.16: 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Daniel (Greek) 3.17: 17 If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Daniel (Greek) 3.18: 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Daniel (Greek) 3.19: 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Daniel (Greek) 3.20: 20 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel (Greek) 3.21: 21 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel (Greek) 3.22: 22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel (Greek) 3.23: 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel (Greek) 3.24: 24 They walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord.

Daniel (Greek) 3.25: 25 Then Azarias stood, and prayed like this. Opening his mouth in the midst of the fire he said:

Daniel (Greek) 3.26: 26 “Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers! Your name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore;

Daniel (Greek) 3.27: 27 for you are righteous in all the things that you have done. Yes, all your works are true. Your ways are right, and all your judgments are truth.

Daniel (Greek) 3.28: 28 In all the things that you have brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem, you have executed true judgments. For according to truth and justice you have brought all these things upon us because of our sins.

Daniel (Greek) 3.29: 29 For we have sinned and committed iniquity, in departing from you.

Daniel (Greek) 3.30: 30 In all things we have trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments, or kept them. We haven’t done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us.

Daniel (Greek) 3.31: 31 Therefore all that you have brought upon us, and everything that you have done to us, you have done in true judgement.

Daniel (Greek) 3.32: 32 You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world.

Daniel (Greek) 3.33: 33 And now we can’t open our mouth. Shame and reproach have come on your servants and those who worship you.

Daniel (Greek) 3.34: 34 Don’t utterly deliver us up, for your name’s sake. Don’t annul your covenant.

Daniel (Greek) 3.35: 35 Don’t cause not your mercy to depart from us, for the sake of Abraham who is loved by you, and for the sake of Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,

Daniel (Greek) 3.36: 36 to whom you promised that you would multiply their offspring as the stars of the sky, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.

Daniel (Greek) 3.37: 37 For we, O Lord, have become less than any nation, and are kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.

Daniel (Greek) 3.38: 38 There isn’t at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burned offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to offer before you, and to find mercy.

Daniel (Greek) 3.39: 39 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted,

Daniel (Greek) 3.40: 40 like the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like ten thousands of fat lambs. So let our sacrifice be in your sight this day, that we may wholly go after you, for they shall not be ashamed who put their trust in you.

Daniel (Greek) 3.41: 41 And now we follow you with all our heart. We fear you, and seek your face.

Daniel (Greek) 3.42: 42 Put us not to shame; but deal with us after your kindness, and according to the multitude of your mercy.

Daniel (Greek) 3.43: 43 Deliver us also according to your marvelous works, and give glory to your name, O Lord. Let all those who harm your servants be confounded.

Daniel (Greek) 3.44: 44 Let them be ashamed of all their power and might, and let their strength be broken.

Daniel (Greek) 3.45: 45 Let them know that you are the Lord, the only God, and glorious over the whole world.”

Daniel (Greek) 3.46: 46 The king’s servants who put them in didn’t stop making the furnace hot with naphtha, pitch, tinder, and small wood,

Daniel (Greek) 3.47: 47 so that the flame streamed out forty nine cubits above the furnace.

Daniel (Greek) 3.48: 48 It spread and burned those Chaldeans whom it found around the furnace.

Daniel (Greek) 3.49: 49 But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace together with Azarias and his fellows, and he struck the flame of the fire out of the furnace,

Daniel (Greek) 3.50: 50 and made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire didn’t touch them at all. It neither hurt nor troubled them.

Daniel (Greek) 3.51: 51 Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace, saying,

Daniel (Greek) 3.52: 52 “Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers, to be praised and exalted above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.53: 53 Blessed is your glorious and holy name, to be praised and exalted above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.54: 54 Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, to be praised and glorified above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.55: 55 Blessed are you that behold the depths, and sit upon the cherubim, to be praised and exalted above all forever.

Daniel (Greek) 3.56: 56 Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, to be praised and extolled above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.57: 57 Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, to be praised and glorified forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.58: 58 O all you works of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.59: 59 O you heavens, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all for ever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.60: 60 O you angels of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.61: 61 O all you waters that are above the sky, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.62: 62 O all you powers of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.63: 63 O you sun and moon, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.64: 64 O you stars of heaven, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.65: 65 O every shower and dew, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.66: 66 O all you winds, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.67: 67 O you fire and heat, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.68: 68 O you dews and storms of snow, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.69: 69 O you nights and days, bless you the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.70: 70 O you light and darkness, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.71: 71 O you cold and heat, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.72: 72 O you frost and snow, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.73: 73 O you lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.74: 74 O let the earth bless the Lord! Let it praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.75: 75 O you mountains and hills, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.76: 76 O all you things that grow on the earth, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.77: 77 3O sea and rivers, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.78: 78 O you springs, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.79: 79 O you whales and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.80: 80 O all you fowls of the air, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.81: 81 O all you beasts and cattle, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.82: 82 O you children of men, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.83: 83 O let Israel bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever.

Daniel (Greek) 3.84: 84 O you priests of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.85: 85 O you servants of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.86: 86 O you spirits and souls of the righteous, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.87: 87 O you who are holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!

Daniel (Greek) 3.88: 88 O Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever; for he has rescued us from Hades, and saved us from the hand of death! He has delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame. He has delivered us out of the midst of the fire.

Daniel (Greek) 3.89: 89 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is forever.

Daniel (Greek) 3.90: 90 O all you who worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise him, and give him thanks; for his mercy is forever!”

Daniel (Greek) 3.91: 91 4 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”

Daniel (Greek) 3.92: 92 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

Daniel (Greek) 3.93: 93 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”

Daniel (Greek) 3.94: 94 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Daniel (Greek) 3.95: 95 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Daniel (Greek) 3.96: 96 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Daniel (Greek) 3.97: 97 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

Daniel (Greek) 4.2: 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

Daniel (Greek) 4.4: 4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

Daniel (Greek) 4.5: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Daniel (Greek) 4.6: 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

Daniel (Greek) 4.7: 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.

Daniel (Greek) 4.8: 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,

Daniel (Greek) 4.9: 9 “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Daniel (Greek) 4.10: 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.

Daniel (Greek) 4.11: 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

Daniel (Greek) 4.12: 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

Daniel (Greek) 4.13: 13 “I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

Daniel (Greek) 4.14: 14 He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Daniel (Greek) 4.15: 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.

Daniel (Greek) 4.16: 16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.

Daniel (Greek) 4.17: 17 “‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Daniel (Greek) 4.18: 18 “This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

Daniel (Greek) 4.19: 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.”

Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

Daniel (Greek) 4.20: 20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

Daniel (Greek) 4.21: 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

Daniel (Greek) 4.22: 22 it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

Daniel (Greek) 4.23: 23 “Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

Daniel (Greek) 4.24: 24 “This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

Daniel (Greek) 4.25: 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

Daniel (Greek) 4.26: 26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.

Daniel (Greek) 4.27: 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Daniel (Greek) 4.29: 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

Daniel (Greek) 4.30: 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Daniel (Greek) 4.31: 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

Daniel (Greek) 4.32: 32 You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”

Daniel (Greek) 4.33: 33 This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel (Greek) 4.34: 34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever;

Daniel (Greek) 4.35: 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;

Daniel (Greek) 4.36: 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

Daniel (Greek) 4.37: 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel (Greek) 5.1: 5Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Daniel (Greek) 5.2: 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

Daniel (Greek) 5.3: 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

Daniel (Greek) 5.4: 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Daniel (Greek) 5.5: 5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Daniel (Greek) 5.6: 6 Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

Daniel (Greek) 5.7: 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel (Greek) 5.8: 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.

Daniel (Greek) 5.9: 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

Daniel (Greek) 5.10: 10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Daniel (Greek) 5.11: 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

Daniel (Greek) 5.12: 12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

Daniel (Greek) 5.13: 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

Daniel (Greek) 5.14: 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.

Daniel (Greek) 5.15: 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

Daniel (Greek) 5.16: 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel (Greek) 5.17: 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Daniel (Greek) 5.18: 18 “You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

Daniel (Greek) 5.19: 19 Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

Daniel (Greek) 5.20: 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Daniel (Greek) 5.21: 21 He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

Daniel (Greek) 5.22: 22 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Daniel (Greek) 5.23: 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Daniel (Greek) 5.24: 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

Daniel (Greek) 5.25: 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

Daniel (Greek) 5.27: 27 TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Daniel (Greek) 5.28: 28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel (Greek) 5.29: 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel (Greek) 5.31: 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Daniel (Greek) 6.1: 6It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

Daniel (Greek) 6.2: 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

Daniel (Greek) 6.3: 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Daniel (Greek) 6.4: 4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Daniel (Greek) 6.5: 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.6: 6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Daniel (Greek) 6.7: 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Daniel (Greek) 6.8: 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.10: 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Daniel (Greek) 6.11: 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

Daniel (Greek) 6.12: 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”

The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.13: 13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.14: 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Daniel (Greek) 6.15: 15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.16: 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.17: 17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Daniel (Greek) 6.18: 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Daniel (Greek) 6.19: 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

Daniel (Greek) 6.20: 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Daniel (Greek) 6.22: 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Daniel (Greek) 6.23: 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Daniel (Greek) 6.24: 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Daniel (Greek) 6.25: 25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:

Daniel (Greek) 6.26: 26 “I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;

Daniel (Greek) 6.28: 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Daniel (Greek) 7.1: 7In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

Daniel (Greek) 7.2: 2 Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.

Daniel (Greek) 7.3: 3 Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.

Daniel (Greek) 7.4: 4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.

Daniel (Greek) 7.5: 5 “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’

Daniel (Greek) 7.6: 6 “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Daniel (Greek) 7.7: 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.

Daniel (Greek) 7.8: 8 “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Daniel (Greek) 7.11: 11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

Daniel (Greek) 7.12: 12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

Daniel (Greek) 7.13: 13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Daniel (Greek) 7.14: 14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

Daniel (Greek) 7.15: 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Daniel (Greek) 7.16: 16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.

Daniel (Greek) 7.17: 17 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

Daniel (Greek) 7.18: 18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

Daniel (Greek) 7.19: 19 “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

Daniel (Greek) 7.20: 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.

Daniel (Greek) 7.21: 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,

Daniel (Greek) 7.22: 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Daniel (Greek) 7.23: 23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Daniel (Greek) 7.24: 24 As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.

Daniel (Greek) 7.25: 25 He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Daniel (Greek) 7.26: 26 “‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

Daniel (Greek) 7.27: 27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

Daniel (Greek) 7.28: 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

Daniel (Greek) 8.1: 8In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

Daniel (Greek) 8.2: 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

Daniel (Greek) 8.3: 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

Daniel (Greek) 8.4: 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.

Daniel (Greek) 8.5: 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

Daniel (Greek) 8.6: 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

Daniel (Greek) 8.7: 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.

Daniel (Greek) 8.8: 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

Daniel (Greek) 8.9: 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.

Daniel (Greek) 8.10: 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.

Daniel (Greek) 8.11: 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

Daniel (Greek) 8.12: 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Daniel (Greek) 8.13: 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”

Daniel (Greek) 8.14: 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”

Daniel (Greek) 8.15: 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.

Daniel (Greek) 8.16: 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”

Daniel (Greek) 8.17: 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

Daniel (Greek) 8.18: 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Daniel (Greek) 8.19: 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

Daniel (Greek) 8.20: 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel (Greek) 8.21: 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel (Greek) 8.22: 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

Daniel (Greek) 8.23: 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

Daniel (Greek) 8.24: 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

Daniel (Greek) 8.25: 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.

Daniel (Greek) 8.26: 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”

Daniel (Greek) 8.27: 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

The following words used in the World English Bible (WEB) are not very common, either because they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money, or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.

Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a respectful, affectionate, and familiar way, like papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to refer to our Father in Heaven.

Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone besides your own husband or wife. In the Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is between a man and a woman who are married to each other.

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the beginning or the first.

“Angel” literally means “messenger” or “envoy,” and is usually used to refer to spiritual beings who normally are invisible to us, but can also appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as humans.

“Apostle” means a delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders. This term is applied in the New Testament in both a general sense connected with a ministry of establishing and strengthening church fellowships, as well as in a specific sense to “The 12 Apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). The former category applies to a specific ministry that continues in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13) and which includes many more than 12 people, while the latter refers to the apostles named in Matthew 10:2-4, except with Judas Iscariot replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).

An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth one tenth of a drachma, or about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii. An aureus weighed from 115 to 126.3 grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).

Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something, usually water. Baptism in the Holy Spirit, fire, the Body of Christ, and suffering are also mentioned in the New Testament, along with baptism in water. Baptism is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment. Baptism is a sign of repentance, as practiced by John the Baptizer, and of faith in Jesus Christ, as practiced by Jesus’ disciples.

A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons.

A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters, 10.4 U. S. gallons, or 8.7 imperial gallons.

Beersheba is Hebrew for “well of the oath” or “well of the seven.” A city in Israel.

A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands that is associated with the throne room of God and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.

A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (which is a little more than a quart). A choenix was the daily ration of grain for a soldier in some armies.

a woman who is united to a man for the purpose of providing him with sexual pleasure and children, but not being honored as a full partner in marriage; a second-class wife. In Old Testament times (and in some places now), it was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs, and wealthy men to marry multiple wives and concubines, but God commanded the Kings of Israel not to do so (Deuteronomy 17:17) and Jesus encouraged people to either remain single or marry as God originally intended: one man married to one woman (Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-13).

A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U. S. gallons, or 86 imperial gallons.

Crucify means to execute someone by nailing them to a cross with metal spikes. Their hands are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes driven through their wrists or hands. Their feet or ankles are attached to a cross with a metal spike. The weight of the victim’s body tends to force the air out of his lungs. To rise up to breathe, the victim has to put weight on the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The victim is nailed to the cross while the cross is on the ground, then the cross is raised up and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the wounds. Before crucifixion, the victim was usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine tails, which had bits of glass and metal tied to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to be removed and open wounds to be placed against the raw wood of the cross. The victim was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of his cross from the place of judgment to the place of crucifixion, but often was physically unable after the scourging, so another person would be pressed into involuntary service to carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was generally done totally naked to maximize both shame and discomfort. Eventually, the pain, weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the muscles needed to breathe make breathing impossible, and the victim suffocates.

A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or 18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the measurement. There is also a “long” cubit that is longer than a regular cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)

Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.

Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or Lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds reveal a great difference. Darnel seeds aren’t good for much except as chicken feed or to burn to prevent the spread of this weed.

denarii: plural form of denarius, a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for a laborer.

A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.

The word “devil” comes from the Greek “diabolos,” which means “one prone to slander; a liar.” “Devil” is used to refer to a fallen angel, also called “Satan,” who works to steal, kill, destroy, and do evil. The devil’s doom is certain, and it is only a matter of time before he is thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.

A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax.

A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one Roman denarius, or about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

El-Elohe-Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”

An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.

Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom, literally “valley of Hinnom.” This word originated as the name for a place south of the old city of Jerusalem where the city’s rubbish was burned. At one time, live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die there. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice that it was made into a garbage heap. Bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.

a sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate reluctant animals (such as oxen and mules) to move in the right direction.

Gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings,” specifically the Good News of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection for our salvation, healing, and provision; and the hope of eternal life that Jesus made available to us by God’s grace.

Hades: The nether realm of the disembodied spirits. Also known as “hell.” See also “Sheol”.

Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most likely a reference to hill (“har”) of Megiddo, near the Carmel Range in Israel. This area has a large valley plain with plenty of room for armies to maneuver.

One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels, 6.1 imperial bushels, 58 U. S. gallons, or 48.4 imperial gallons.

a stage actor; someone who pretends to be someone other than who they really are; a pretender; a dissembler

Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar. Ishmael literally means, “God hears.”

“Jesus” is Greek for the Hebrew name “Yeshua,” which is a short version of “Yehoshua,” which comes from “Yoshia,” which means “He will save.”

A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta. It is worth less than 2% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.

Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic creature, possibly a crocodile or a dinosaur.

Name for the food that God miraculously provided to the Israelites while they were wandering in the wilderness between Egypt and the promised land. From Hebrew man-hu (What is that?) or manan (to allot). See Exodus 16:14-35.

the union of a husband and a wife for the purpose of cohabitation, procreation, and to enjoy each other’s company. God’s plan for marriage is between one man and one woman (Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7). Although there are many cases of a man marrying more than one woman in the Old Testament, being married to one wife is a requirement to serve in certain church leadership positions (1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:5-6).

Maschil is a musical and literary term for “contemplation” or “meditative psalm.”

A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas (or 100 Roman denarii), or about 100 day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to the ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown resin. Myrrh was highly valued as a perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and ceremonial ointments.

Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught the detestable lie that the physical and spiritual realms were entirely separate and that immorality in the physical realm wouldn’t harm your spiritual health.

Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the last or the end.

a leather container for holding a small scroll containing important Scripture passages that is worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men. See Deuteronomy 6:8.

Praetorium: the Roman governor’s residence and office building, and those who work there.

A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “my teacher,” used as a title of respect for Jewish teachers.

Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid Joshua’s 2 spies in Jericho (Joshua 2,6) and later became an ancestor of Jesus (Matthew 1:5) and an example of faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25); or (2) Literally, “pride” or “arrogance” — possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature (Job 9:13; 26:12; Isaiah 51:9) or symbolically referring to Egypt (Psalm 87:4; 89:10; Isaiah 30:7).

to change one’s mind; turn away from sin and turn toward God; to abhor one’s past sins and determine to follow God.

The Greek word for “saints” literally means “holy ones.” Saints are people set apart for service to God as holy and separate, living in righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.

A Samaritan is a resident of Samaria. The Samaritans and the Jews generally detested each other during the time that Jesus walked among us.

To declare or set apart something as holy. To purify and separate a person from sin.

A sata is a dry measure of capacity approximately equal to 13 liters or 1.5 pecks.

Satan means “accuser.” This is one name for the devil, an enemy of God and God’s people.

A scribe is one who copies God’s law. They were often respected as teachers and authorities on God’s law.

Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or instrumental interlude for reflection.

The term “sexual immorality” in the New Testament comes from the Greek “porneia,” which refers to any sexual activity besides that between a husband and his wife. In other words, prostitution (male or female), bestiality, homosexual activity, any sexual intercourse outside of marriage, and the production and consumption of pornography all are included in this term.

A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).

“Soul” refers to the emotions and intellect of a living person, as well as that person’s very life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a person’s spirit and body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12)

A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)

Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same Hebrew and Greek words. A person’s spirit is the very essence of that person’s life, which comes from God, who is a Spirit being (John 4:24, Genesis 1:2; 2:7). The Bible distinguishes between a person’s spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12). Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily having a visible body, such as angels and demons (Luke 9:39, 1 John 4:1-3).

Stadia is plural for “stadion,” a linear measure of about 184.9 meters or 606.6 feet (the length of the race course at Olympia).

A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.

Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for the wicked dead; another name for Gehenna or Hell.

Teraphim are household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

“Yah” is a shortened form of “Yahweh,” which is God’s proper name. This form is used occasionally in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms. See “Yahweh.”

“Yahweh” is God’s proper name. In Hebrew, the four consonants roughly equivalent to YHWH were considered too holy to pronounce, so the Hebrew word for “Lord” (Adonai) was substituted when reading it aloud. When vowel points were added to the Hebrew Old Testament, the vowel points for “Adonai” were mixed with the consonants for “Yahweh,” which if you pronounced it literally as written, would be pronounced “Yehovah” or “Jehovah.” When the Old Testament was translated to Greek, the tradition of substituting “Lord” for God’s proper name continued in the translation of God’s name to “Lord” (Kurios). Some English Bibles translate God’s proper name to “LORD” or “GOD” (usually with small capital letters), based on that same tradition. This can get really confusing, since two other words (“Adonai” and “Elohim”) translate to “Lord” and “God,” and they are sometimes used together. The ASV of 1901 (and some other translations) render YHWH as “Jehovah.” The most probable pronunciation of God’s proper name is “Yahweh.” In Hebrew, the name “Yahweh” is related to the active declaration “I AM.” See Exodus 3:13-14. Since Hebrew has no tenses, the declaration “I AM” can also be interpreted as “I WAS” and “I WILL BE.” Compare Revelation 1:8.

Zion is a name which originally referred one of the mountains of Jerusalem. It became a term synonymous with Jerusalem itself. The term “Heavenly Zion” is also used to refer the future dwelling place of God’s people.

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

2 1:29 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 2:4 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 2:12 or, aromatic resin

3 2:18 or, suitable for, or appropriate for.

1 3:24 cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.

1 4:1 or, lay with, or, had relations with

2 4:1 or, became pregnant

1 5:2 “Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.

1 6:4 or, giants

2 6:15 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.

1 7:20 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.

1 12:7 or, seed

1 15:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.

1 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.

1 17:19 Isaac means “he laughs”.

1 18:6 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

1 19:22 Zoar means “little”.

1 21:3 Isaac means “He laughs”.

2 21:31 Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.

1 22:14 or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing

1 23:15 A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.

1 24:22 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 25:30 “Edom” means “red”.

1 26:33 Shibah means “oath” or “seven”.

2 26:33 Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven”

1 30:24 Joseph means “may he add”.

1 31:19 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

2 31:47 “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.

3 31:47 “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.

1 32:30 Peniel means “face of God”.

1 33:17 succoth means shelters or booths.

2 33:20 El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty”.

1 34:17 Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”

1 35:18 “Benoni” means “son of my trouble”.

2 35:18 “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand”.

1 37:35 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 38:29 Perez means “breaking out”.

2 38:30 Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness”.

1 41:51 “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”.

2 41:52 “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.

1 42:38 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 44:29 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 44:31 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 1:9 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:10 “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”.

2 2:22 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.

1 3:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 4:10 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.

1 10:19 “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.

1 14:8 or, defiantly.

1 15:23 Marah means bitter.

1 16:16 An omer is about 2.2 liters or about 2.3 quarts

2 16:31 “Manna” means “What is it?”

3 16:36 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 17:7 Massah means testing.

2 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.

3 17:15 Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi

1 18:3 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.

2 18:4 Eliezer means “God is my helper”.

1 20:1 After “God”, 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.

2 20:7 or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain

1 21:32 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 30 shekels is about 300 grams or about 10.6 ounces.

1 24:10 or, lapis lazuli

1 25:5 or, fine leather

2 25:10 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.

3 25:39 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 26:2 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.

1 27:1 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 27:1 The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.

1 28:16 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)

2 28:18 or, lapis lazuli

1 29:40 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 29:40 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons, so a fourth of a hin is about 1.6 liters.

1 30:2 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 30:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

3 30:13 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains

4 30:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

5 30:23 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 500 shekels is about 5 kilograms or about 11 pounds.

6 30:24 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

1 32:13 or, seed

1 36:9 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.

1 37:1 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 37:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 38:1 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 38:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces.

3 38:24 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces.

4 38:25 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

5 38:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

6 38:26 a beka is about 5 grams or about 0.175 ounces

7 38:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

8 38:27 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.

9 38:28 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds.

10 38:29 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

11 38:29 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.

1 39:9 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)

2 39:11 or, lapis lazuli

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

1 2:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 5:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 5:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 6:20 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 10:16 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 11:5 or rock badger, or cony

1 13:48 warp and woof are the vertical and horizontal threads in woven cloth

1 14:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 14:10 a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces

3 14:21 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

4 14:21 a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces

1 19:16 literally, “blood”

2 19:23 literally, “uncircumcised”

3 19:36 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

4 19:36 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

1 20:2 or, seed

1 23:13 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 23:13 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

3 23:17 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

4 23:34 or, feast of tents, or Succoth

5 23:42 or, booths

6 23:42 or, booths

7 23:43 or, booths

1 24:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 27:3 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

2 27:16 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

3 27:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

4 27:25 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

5 27:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

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

2 1:16 or, chiefs, or, leaders

1 3:12 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 3:34 + 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.

3 3:47 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

4 3:47 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

5 3:50 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or about 30 pounds.

1 5:15 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 5:28 or, seed

1 6:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 7:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 11:3 Taberah means “burning”

2 11:7 Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.

3 11:31 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.

4 11:32 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

5 11:34 Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”

1 13:33 or, giants

2 13:33 or, giants

1 14:17 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 15:4 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 15:4 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

3 15:6 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

4 15:9 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

5 15:38 or, tassels (Hebrew צִיצִ֛ת)

6 15:38 or, tassel

7 15:39 or, tassel

1 16:30 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 16:33 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 18:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

2 18:16 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

1 20:13 “Meribah” means “quarreling”.

1 21:3 “Hormah” means “destruction”.

1 28:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 28:5 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

3 28:7 One hin is about 6.5 liters, so 1/4 hin is about 1.6 liters or 1.7 quarts.

4 28:9 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

5 28:12 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 31:52 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or about 368.5 pounds.

1 35:4 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.

1 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:6 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:8 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:8 or, seed

1 3:11 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 3:24 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 5:11 or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain;

1 22:12 or, tassels

2 22:19 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 100 shekels is about a kilogram or 2.2 pounds.

3 22:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 23:18 literally, dog

1 26:5 or, forefather

1 27:20 i.e., has sexual relations with

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 33:2 another manuscript reads “He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.”

2 33:16 i.e., the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.

1 34:3 or, Negev

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

2 1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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

1 3:4 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, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 meters.

2 3:11 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 5:9 “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”

1 7:21 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 24:3 or, seed

2 24:32 Hebrew: kesitahs. A kesitah was a kind of silver coin.

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).

1 2:5 “Bochim” means “weepers”.

1 3:16 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 3:24 or, “relieving himself”.

1 6:15 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

2 6:19 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

3 6:24 or, Yahweh Shalom

4 6:32 “Jerub-Baal” means “Let Baal contend”.

1 8:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 1700 shekels is about 17 kilograms or 37.4 pounds.

1 9:21 “Beer” is Hebrew for “well”, i.e., a village named for its well.

1 13:18 or, wonderful

1 15:17 “Ramath” means “hill” and “Lehi” means “jawbone”.

1 17:5 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

1 18:14 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

1 1:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:15 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:16 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

4 1:20 “Naomi” means “pleasant”.

5 1:20 “Mara” means “bitter”.

1 2:17 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 4:12 or, seed

1 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for “heard by God.”

4 1:24 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 2:20 or, seed

3 2:31 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 2:33 or, blind your eyes with tears

1 4:21 “Ichabod” means “no glory”.

1 7:12 “Ebenezer” means “stone of help”.

1 9:8 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1/4 shekel would be a small coin of about 2.5 grams.

1 13:1 The traditional Hebrew text omits “thirty” and “forty-”. The blanks are filled in here from a few manuscripts of the Septuagint.

2 13:21 A payim (or pim) was 2/3 shekel of silver, or 0.26 ounces, or 7.6 grams

1 15:23 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

1 17:4 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. A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.) Therefore, Goliath was about 9 feet and 9 inches or 2.97 meters tall.

2 17:5 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 5000 shekels is about 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.

3 17:7 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or about 13 pounds.

4 17:17 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 19:13 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

1 23:28 “Sela Hammahlekoth” means “rock of parting”.

1 25:18 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

2 25:22 or, male.

3 25:25 “Nabal” means “foolish”.

4 25:34 or, one male.

1 31:13 or, salt cedar

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

2 1:12 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 2:16 “Helkath Hazzurim” means “field of daggers”.

2 2:27 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 4:8 or, seed

1 5:20 “Baal Perazim” means “Lord who breaks out”.

1 6:8 “Perez Uzzah” means “outbreak against Uzzah”.

1 7:18 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 12:25 “Jedidiah” means “loved by Yahweh”.

2 12:30 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 14:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 200 shekels is about 2 kilograms or about 4.4 pounds.

1 22:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 24:24 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels is about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.

1 1:14 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:17 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 2:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

3 2:26 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

4 2:33 or, seed

1 4:22 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels

1 5:11 20,000 cors would be about 120,000 bushels or about 4.2 megaliters of wheat, which would weigh about 3,270 metric tons.

2 5:11 20 cors is about 1,100 gallons or about 4220 liters.

1 6:2 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 6:23 “Cherubim” is plural of “cherub”, an angelic being.

1 7:2 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 7:38 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters, so 4 baths was about 224 gallons or 840 liters.

1 9:13 “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”.

2 9:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons

3 9:28 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 420 talents is about 12.6 metric tons

1 10:11 possibly an Indian sandalwood, with nice grain and a pleasant scent, and good for woodworking

2 10:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons

3 10:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or 13.2 pounds or 192 Troy ounces.

4 10:17 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.

5 10:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 14:10 or, male

2 14:15 That is, the Euphrates.

1 16:11 or, male

2 16:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.

1 18:32 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

1 20:39 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

1 21:21 or, male

1 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:3 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:9 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 5:5 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

2 5:22 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

3 5:27 or, seed

1 6:25 A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint

1 7:1 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

2 7:1 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.

3 7:6 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

4 7:16 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

5 7:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.

6 7:18 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

7 7:18 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.

1 9:8 or, male

a 12:4 Exodus 30:12

1 14:13 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.

1 15:19 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons

2 15:20 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.

1 18:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 23:24 teraphim were household idols.

2 23:33 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 25:17 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.

1 2:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 4:9 “Jabez” sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “pain”.

2 4:10 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 7:23 “Beriah” is similar to the Hebrew word for “misfortune”.

1 9:1 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 11:23 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. Therefore this Egyptian was bout 7 feet and 6 inches or 2.28 meters tall.

1 14:11 “Baal Perazim” means “The Lord who breaks out”.

1 16:13 or, seed

1 19:6 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons

2 19:16 or, the Euphrates River

1 20:2 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 21:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.

1 22:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 100,000 talents is about 3 metric tons

2 22:14 about 30,000 metric tons

1 29:4 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 3000 talents is about 90 metric tons

2 29:4 about 21 metric tons

3 29:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 5000 talents is about 150 metric tons

4 29:7 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.

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

2 1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:17 The pieces of silver were probably shekels, so 600 pieces would be about 13.2 pounds or 6 kilograms of silver, and 150 would be about 3.3 pounds or 1.5 kilograms of silver.

4 1:17 or, Aramean

1 2:4 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 2:10 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels, so 20,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 545 metric tons

3 2:10 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 20,000 baths of barley would weigh about 262 metric tons.

1 3:3 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 3:8 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 600 talents is about 18 metric tons

3 3:9 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.

1 4:1 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 4:2 or, pool, or, reservoir

3 4:5 A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 liters, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kiloliters.

1 6:13 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.

1 8:13 or, feast of tents (Sukkot)

2 8:18 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 450 talents is about 13.5 metric tons

1 9:4 or, she was breathless.

2 9:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons

3 9:10 possibly Indian sandalwood, which has nice grain and a pleasant scent and is good for woodworking

4 9:13 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons

5 9:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.

6 9:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 300 shekels was about 3 kilograms or about 96 Troy ounces.

1 20:7 or, seed

2 20:26 “Beracah” means “blessing”.

1 25:6 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

2 25:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

3 25:23 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, so 400 cubits is about 200 yards or 184 meters.

1 27:5 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

2 27:5 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels. 10,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 1,640 metric tons.

3 27:5 10,000 cors of barley would weigh about 1,310 metric tons.

1 32:21 i.e., his own sons

1 33:19 or, the seers

1 36:3 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

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

2 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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 6:3 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.

1 7:22 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

2 7:22 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels.

3 7:22 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 100 baths would be about 2,100 liters.

1 8:26 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

2 8:27 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.

1 9:15 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 1:4 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 1:5 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:11 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 3:13 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.

1 5:5 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 5:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 7:61 or, seed

2 7:70 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.

3 7:71 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 2,200 minas is about 1.3 metric tons.

1 8:15 or, booths

2 8:16 or, booths

3 8:17 or, booths

1 10:32 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 3:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 5:14 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.

1 6:5 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 7:9 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.

1 9:26 Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.

2 9:28 or, seed

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

2 1:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:12 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 5:25 or, seed

1 7:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 11:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 14:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 24:19 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 26:6 Sheol is the lower world or the grave.

2 26:6 Abaddon means Destroyer.

1 28:16 or, lapis lazuli

2 28:28 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 32:8 or, breath

1 41:1 Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.

1 42:11 literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 2:2 The word “Anointed” is the same as the word for “Messiah” or “Christ”

2 2:4 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

3 2:12 or, Kiss the son

1 3:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 6:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 7:14 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 8:5 Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in Hebrews 2:7.

1 9:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 16:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 18:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 18:50 or, seed

1 22:16 So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”

1 30:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 31:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 34:1 Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).

1 42:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 42:8 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 44:23 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 46:0 Alamoth is a musical term.

1 49:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 49:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

3 49:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 55:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 73:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 73:20 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

3 73:28 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 86:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 87:4 Rahab is a reference to Egypt.

1 88:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 90:0 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 90:1 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

3 90:13 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 97:7 LXX reads “angels” instead of “gods”.

1 104:4 or, angels

1 107:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 107:11 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 109:21 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 111:1 Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).

1 112:1 Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).

1 116:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 118:22 Literally, head of the corner

1 138:1 The word elohim, used here, usually means “God” but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”.

1 139:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 141:7 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 145:0 This is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

2 145:13 Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.

1 1:7 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:12 Sheol is the place of the dead.

3 1:23 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 5:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 7:27 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 9:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 11:21 or, seed

1 15:11 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 15:24 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 27:20 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 30:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 31:10 Proverbs 31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in order.

1 1:10 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 9:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 1:15 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 8:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 8:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 8:11 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:4 or, seed

3 1:10 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

4 1:24 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

5 1:25 tin is a metal that is separated from silver during the refining and purification process.

1 3:1 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 5:10 literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.

2 5:10 1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons

3 5:10 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

4 5:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.

5 5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 7:14 “Immanuel” means “God with us”.

2 7:23 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or 22 pounds.

1 8:1 “Maher Shalal Hash Baz” means “quick to the plunder, swift to the prey”.

1 14:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 14:11 Sheol is the place of the dead.

3 14:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 25:6 literally, fat things

1 28:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 28:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 29:2 or, Ariel

1 34:14 literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster

1 38:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 38:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 45:5 or, equip

1 52:15 or, sprinkle

1 53:11 So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits “the light”.

1 57:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 62:4 Hephzibah means “I delight in her”.

2 62:4 Beulah means “married”

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:6 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

3 1:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 2:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 2:18 i.e., the Euphrates River

1 7:15 or, seed

1 20:3 “Magormissabib” means “surrounded by terror”

1 32:9 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 48:1 or, The stronghold

1 52:21 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 52:22 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.

1 1:5 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 3:41 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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

2 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:4 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:26 or, lapis lazuli

1 2:4 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 3:7 Literally, have a hard forehead

1 4:10 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

2 4:11 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

1 10:1 or, lapis lazuli

1 17:13 or, seed

1 20:29 “Bamah” means “High Place”.

1 21:6 literally, the breaking of your thighs

2 21:21 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

1 22:7 Literally, made light of father and mother.

1 28:13 or, lapis lazuli

1 31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 32:21 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 40:5 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. Thus, a 6-cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards or about 2.74 meters long.

1 41:2 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.

1 42:2 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.

1 43:13 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 43:13 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)

1 45:2 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 45:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

3 45:11 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

4 45:12 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

5 45:12 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains

6 45:12 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.

7 45:14 1 cor is the same as 1 homer in volume, and is about 211 liters, 55.9 gallons, or 6 bushels. 1 bath is about 21.1 liters, 5.59 gallons, or 2.4 pecks.

8 45:24 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

9 45:24 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

1 46:5 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

2 46:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

3 46:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

4 46:14 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

5 46:22 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.

1 47:3 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.

1 1:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

2 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:3 or, seed

1 2:31 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 3:1 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.

1 9:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 9:25 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).

3 9:26 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).

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

2 1:6 Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.

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

4 1:9 Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.

1 2:1 ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew

2 2:1 ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew

3 2:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 3:2 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

1 12:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 13:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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

2 1:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:19 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:8 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 2:8 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 2:13 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 8:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 8:5 a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 9:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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 1:6 or, gods

3 1:6 or, gods

4 1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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

2 1:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

3 1:3 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:10 Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”

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

1 6:10 An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:15 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 3:8 or, Thebes

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 3:19 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

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

2 1:7 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 2:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 3:19 “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 1:9 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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

2 1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:13 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 2:3 or, seed

1 1:1 Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”

2 1:16 “Jesus” means “Salvation”.

3 1:20 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:21 “Jesus” means “Salvation”.

a 1:23 Isaiah 7:14

1 2:1 The word for “wise men” (magoi) can also mean teachers, scientists, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers.

a 2:6 Micah 5:2

b 2:15 Hosea 11:1

c 2:18 Jeremiah 31:15

a 3:3 Isaiah 40:3

1 3:11 TR and NU add “and with fire”

2 3:13 i.e., the Jordan River

a 4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3

b 4:6 Psalm 91:11-12

c 4:7 Deuteronomy 6:16

1 4:10 TR and NU read “Go away” instead of “Get behind me”

d 4:10 Deuteronomy 6:13

e 4:16 Isaiah 9:1-2

2 4:18 TR reads “Jesus” instead of “he”

a 5:3 Isaiah 57:15; 66:2

b 5:4 Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13

1 5:5 or, land.

c 5:5 Psalm 37:11

2 5:18 literally, iota

3 5:18 or, serif

d 5:21 Exodus 20:13

4 5:22 NU omits “without a cause”.

5 5:22 “Raca” is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for “empty” and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.

6 5:22 or, Hell

7 5:26 literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow’s mites)—not enough to buy very much of anything.

8 5:27 TR adds “to the ancients”.

e 5:27 Exodus 20:14

9 5:29 or, Hell

10 5:30 or, Hell

f 5:31 Deuteronomy 24:1

g 5:33 Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4

h 5:38 Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21

i 5:43 Leviticus 19:18

11 5:43 not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26

12 5:47 NU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”.

1 6:1 NU reads “acts of righteousness” instead of “charitable giving”

2 6:13 NU omits “For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.”

3 6:27 literally, cubit

1 7:14 TR reads “Because” instead of “How”

1 8:15 TR reads “them” instead of “him”

a 8:17 Isaiah 53:4

2 8:28 NU reads “Gadarenes”

a 9:13 Hosea 6:6

1 9:13 NU omits “to repentance”.

2 9:20 or, tassel

3 9:36 TR reads “weary” instead of “harassed”

1 10:3 NU omits “Lebbaeus, who was also called”

2 10:8 TR adds “raise the dead,”

3 10:25 Literally, Lord of the Flies, or the devil

4 10:28 or, Hell.

5 10:29 An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor.

a 10:36 Micah 7:6

a 11:5 Isaiah 35:5

b 11:5 Isaiah 61:1-4

c 11:10 Malachi 3:1

1 11:12 or, plunder it.

2 11:19 NU reads “actions” instead of “children”

3 11:23 or, Hell

a 12:4 1 Samuel 21:3-6

b 12:7 Hosea 6:6

c 12:21 Isaiah 42:1-4

1 12:35 TR adds “of the heart”

a 13:15 Isaiah 6:9-10

1 13:25 darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.

2 13:33 literally, three sata. Three sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel

b 13:35 Psalm 78:2

3 13:49 or, end of the age.

4 13:55 or, Judah

1 14:25 The night was equally divided into four watches, so the fourth watch is approximately 3:00 a.m. to sunrise.

a 14:25 See Job 9:8

2 14:27 or, I AM!

3 14:36 or, tassel

a 15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16

b 15:4 Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9

c 15:9 Isaiah 29:13

1 16:18 Peter’s name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.

2 16:18 Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.

3 16:18 or, Hell

1 17:2 or, transfigured

2 17:21 NU omits verse 21.

3 17:24 A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days’ wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

4 17:27 A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel temple tax for two people. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, usually in the form of a silver coin.

1 18:9 or, Hell

2 18:11 NU omits verse 11.

a 18:16 Deuteronomy 19:15

3 18:24 Ten thousand talents (about 300 metric tons of silver) represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor.

4 18:28 100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent, or about 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of silver.

a 19:4 Genesis 1:27

b 19:5 Genesis 2:24

1 19:17 So MT and TR. NU reads “Why do you ask me about what is good?”

c 19:19 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20

d 19:19 Leviticus 19:18

1 20:2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.

2 20:3 Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 a.m.

3 20:5 noon and 3:00 p.m.

4 20:6 5:00 p.m.

5 20:26 TR reads “let him be” instead of “shall be”

1 21:1 TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage”

a 21:5 Zechariah 9:9

2 21:9 “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”.

b 21:9 Psalm 118:26

c 21:13 Isaiah 56:7

d 21:13 Jeremiah 7:11

e 21:16 Psalm 8:2

f 21:42 Psalm 118:22-23

1 22:24 or, seed

a 22:32 Exodus 3:6

b 22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5

c 22:39 Leviticus 19:18

d 22:44 Psalm 110:1

1 23:5 phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are small leather pouches that some Jewish men wear on their forehead and arm in prayer. They are used to carry a small scroll with some Scripture in it. See Deuteronomy 6:8.

2 23:5 or, tassels

3 23:14 Some Greek texts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13. NU omits verse 14.

4 23:15 or, Hell

5 23:21 NU reads “lives”

6 23:23 cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.

7 23:25 TR reads “self-indulgence” instead of “unrighteousness”

8 23:33 or, Hell

a 23:39 Psalm 118:26

a 24:15 Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11

1 24:21 or, oppression

2 24:28 or, eagles

3 24:29 or, oppression

b 24:29 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4

4 24:34 The word for “generation” (genea) can also be translated as “race.”

5 24:36 NU adds “nor the son”

1 25:7 The end of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically to avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits. The wick height is also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly and gives good light without producing a lot of smoke.

2 25:15 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds (usually used to weigh silver unless otherwise specified)

3 25:40 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

1 26:26 TR reads “blessed” instead of “gave thanks for”

a 26:31 Zechariah 13:7

1 27:9 some manuscripts omit “Jeremiah”

a 27:10 Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9

2 27:34 or, vinegar

3 27:34 Gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green oil from a wormwood plant that is alcoholic in its effect.

4 27:35 TR adds “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: ‘They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots;’” [see Psalm 22:18 and John 19:24]

5 27:41 TR omits “the Pharisees”

6 27:45 noon

7 27:45 3:00 p.m.

8 27:46 TR reads “lama” instead of “lima”

b 27:46 Psalm 22:1

1 28:10 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 28:19 TR and NU add “therefore”

a 1:17 Malachi 4:6

1 1:20 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:37 or, “For everything spoken by God is possible.”

3 1:55 or, seed

a 2:23 Exodus 13:2,12

b 2:24 Leviticus 12:8

1 2:26 “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew) both mean “Anointed One”

a 3:6 Isaiah 40:3-5

1 3:19 a tetrarch is one of four governors of a province

2 3:19 TR reads “brother Philip’s” instead of “brother’s”

3 3:33 NU reads “Admin, the son of Arni” instead of “Aram”

a 4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3

b 4:8 Deuteronomy 6:13

c 4:11 Psalm 91:11-12

d 4:12 Deuteronomy 6:16

1 4:18 NU omits “to heal the broken hearted”

e 4:19 Isaiah 61:1-2

1 6:26 TR adds “to you”

2 6:26 TR adds “all”

3 6:38 literally, into your bosom.

a 7:27 Malachi 3:1

1 7:31 TR adds “But the Lord said,”

1 8:3 TR reads “him” instead of “them”

a 8:10 Isaiah 6:9

b 8:24 See Psalm 107:29

2 8:44 or, tassel

1 9:1 TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve”

2 9:10 NU omits “a desert region of”.

3 9:23 TR, NU add “daily”

4 9:31 literally, “exodus”

1 10:1 literally, “before his face”

2 10:15 Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.

a 10:27 Deuteronomy 6:5

b 10:27 Leviticus 19:18

1 12:5 or, Hell

2 12:6 An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

3 12:25 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.

a 12:53 Micah 7:6

4 12:59 literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.

1 13:21 literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel.

a 13:35 Psalm 118:26

1 14:5 TR reads “donkey” instead of “son”

2 14:26 or, hate

1 15:8 A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.

1 16:6 100 batos is about 395 liters or 104 U. S. gallons.

2 16:7 100 cors = about 2,110 liters or 600 bushels.

3 16:13 “Mammon” refers to riches or a false god of wealth.

4 16:23 or, Hell

1 17:36 Some Greek manuscripts add: “Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left.”

a 18:20 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20

1 19:13 10 minas was more than 3 years’ wages for an agricultural laborer.

2 19:29 TR, NU read “Bethpage” instead of “Bethsphage”

a 19:38 Psalm 118:26

b 19:46 Isaiah 56:7

c 19:46 Jeremiah 7:11

1 20:1 TR adds “chief”

2 20:9 NU (in brackets) and TR add “certain”

a 20:17 Psalm 118:22

b 20:37 Exodus 3:6

c 20:43 Psalm 110:1

1 21:2 literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

2 21:8 or, I AM

1 22:32 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 22:37 Isaiah 53:12

1 23:17 NU omits verse 17.

a 23:30 Hosea 10:8

2 23:44 Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.

3 23:44 3:00 p.m.

1 24:13 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.

1 1:5 The word translated “overcome” (κατέλαβεν) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.

2 1:18 NU reads “God”

a 1:23 Isaiah 40:3

3 1:29 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:39 4:00 p.m.

5 1:41 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.

6 1:42 “Cephas” (Aramaic) and “Peter” (Greek) both mean “Rock”.

1 2:6 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115 liters.

a 2:17 Psalm 69:9

1 3:3 The word translated “anew” here and in John 3:7 (ἄνωθεν) also means “again” and “from above”.

2 3:8 The same Greek word (πνεῦμα) means wind, breath, and spirit.

3 3:36 The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context.

1 4:6 noon

2 4:52 1:00 p.m.

1 5:4 NU omits from “waiting” in verse 3 to the end of verse 4.

1 6:7 A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay.

2 6:19 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles

a 6:19 See Job 9:8

3 6:20 or, I AM

4 6:31 Greek and Hebrew use the same word for “heaven”, “the heavens”, “the sky”, and “the air”.

b 6:31 Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25

c 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

1 7:42 or, seed

a 7:42 2 Samuel 7:12

b 7:42 Micah 5:2

c 7:52 See Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:13-16

a 8:5 Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22

1 8:11 NU includes John 7:53–John 8:11, but puts brackets around it to indicate that the textual critics had less confidence that this was original.

b 8:12 Isaiah 60:1

c 8:17 Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15

2 8:24 or, I AM

d 8:32 Psalm 119:45

e 8:58 Exodus 3:14

a 9:31 Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9

a 10:11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22

b 10:16 Isaiah 56:8

c 10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8

d 10:21 Exodus 4:11

1 10:22 The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah”, a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.

e 10:34 Psalm 82:6

1 11:16 “Didymus” means “Twin”.

2 11:18 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles

3 11:41 NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.”

1 12:3 a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams

2 12:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

3 12:13 “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”.

a 12:13 Psalm 118:25-26

b 12:15 Zechariah 9:9

c 12:34 Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; See Isaiah 53:8

d 12:38 Isaiah 53:1

e 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

f 12:41 Isaiah 6:1

a 13:18 Psalm 41:9

1 14:16 Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.

a 15:20 John 13:16

b 15:25 Psalm 35:19; 69:4

1 15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.

1 16:3 TR adds “to you”

2 16:15 TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”

a 17:17 Psalm 119:142

a 18:9 John 6:39

1 19:14 “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then.

a 19:24 Psalm 22:18

2 19:28 NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing”

b 19:36 Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20

c 19:37 Zechariah 12:10

3 19:39 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.

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 21:8 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters

2 21:23 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

1 1:10 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

a 1:20 Psalm 69:25

b 1:20 Psalm 109:8

1 2:15 about 9:00 a.m.

a 2:21 Joel 2:28-32

2 2:27 or, Hell

b 2:28 Psalm 16:8-11

3 2:31 or, Hell

c 2:35 Psalm 110:1

1 3:1 3:00 p.m.

2 3:17 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 3:23 Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19

3 3:25 or, seed

b 3:25 Genesis 22:18; 26:4

a 4:11 Psalm 118:22

1 4:26 Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One.

b 4:26 Psalm 2:1-2

2 4:27 nu adds “in this city,”

1 6:1 The Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of Hebrew descent.

a 7:3 Genesis 12:1

b 7:7 Genesis 15:13-14

1 7:23 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

c 7:28 Exodus 2:14

d 7:32 Exodus 3:6

e 7:34 Exodus 3:5,7-8,10

2 7:37 TR adds “You shall listen to him.”

f 7:37 Deuteronomy 18:15

g 7:40 Exodus 32:1

3 7:42 This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven”, or “angelic beings”, or “heavenly bodies.”

h 7:43 Amos 5:25-27

i 7:50 Isaiah 66:1-2

a 8:33 Isaiah 53:7,8

1 8:37 TR adds Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” He answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

1 9:5 TR adds “It’s hard for you to kick against the cattle prods.”

2 9:6 TR omits “But”

3 9:11 or, Judas

4 9:28 TR and NU add “and going out”

5 9:29 TR and NU omit “Jesus” and reverse the order of verses 28 & 29.

6 9:29 The Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture.

7 9:30 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

8 9:36 “Dorcas” is Greek for “Gazelle.”

9 9:38 Reading from NU, TR; MT omits “two men”

1 10:3 3:00 p.m.

2 10:6 TR adds “This one will tell you what it is necessary for you to do.”

3 10:19 Reading from TR and NU. MT omits “three”

4 10:30 3:00 p.m.

5 10:39 TR omits “also”

1 11:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 11:20 A Hellenist is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.

1 12:25 TR reads “from” instead of “to”

1 13:17 TR, NU add “Israel”

2 13:23 TR, NU read “a Savior, Jesus” instead of “salvation”

3 13:24 TR, NU read “to all the people of Israel” instead of “to Israel”

a 13:33 Psalm 2:7

b 13:34 Isaiah 55:3

c 13:35 Psalm 16:10

4 13:38 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

d 13:41 Habakkuk 1:5

e 13:47 Isaiah 49:6

1 14:2 or, disobedient

2 14:17 TR reads “us” instead of “you”

1 15:1 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 15:11 TR adds “Christ”

a 15:17 Amos 9:11-12

3 15:22 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

4 15:34 Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.

1 17:5 TR reads “And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along” instead of “But the unpersuaded Jews took along”

2 17:6 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

3 17:18 TR omits “also”

1 18:18 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

1 19:19 The 50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of wages for agricultural laborers

1 20:8 TR reads “they” instead of “we”

2 20:21 TR adds “Christ”

3 20:28 TR, NU omit “the Lord and”

4 20:32 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 23:5 Exodus 22:28

1 23:23 about 9:00 p.m.

1 24:6 TR adds “We wanted to judge him according to our law,”

2 24:7 TR adds “but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,”

3 24:8 TR adds “commanding his accusers to come to you.”

1 27:14 Or, “a northeaster”.

2 27:28 20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters

3 27:28 15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters

1 28:1 NU reads “we”

2 28:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 28:27 Isaiah 6:9-10

3 28:29 NU omits verse 29.

1 1:3 or, seed

a 1:17 Habakkuk 2:4

a 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12

b 2:24 Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22

a 3:4 Psalm 51:4

b 3:12 Psalm 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20

c 3:13 Psalm 5:9

d 3:13 Psalm 140:3

e 3:14 Psalm 10:7

f 3:17 Isaiah 59:7-8

g 3:18 Psalm 36:1

1 3:25 or, a propitiation

a 4:3 Genesis 15:6

b 4:8 Psalm 32:1-2

c 4:17 Genesis 17:5

d 4:18 Genesis 15:5

e 4:22 Genesis 15:6

1 7:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21

1 8:1 NU omits “who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”

2 8:15 Abba is an Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy”, which can be used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.

3 8:29 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 8:36 Psalm 44:22

a 9:7 Genesis 21:12

b 9:9 Genesis 18:10,14

1 9:11 NU puts the phrase “not of works, but of him who calls” at the beginning of verse 12 instead of the end of verse 11.

c 9:12 Genesis 25:23

d 9:13 Malachi 1:2-3

e 9:15 Exodus 33:19

f 9:17 Exodus 9:16

g 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9

h 9:25 Hosea 2:23

i 9:26 Hosea 1:10

j 9:28 Isaiah 10:22-23

2 9:29 Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)

k 9:29 Isaiah 1:9

3 9:33 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

l 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16

1 10:4 or, completion, or end

a 10:5 Leviticus 18:5

b 10:6 Deuteronomy 30:12

c 10:7 Deuteronomy 30:13

d 10:8 Deuteronomy 30:14

e 10:11 Isaiah 28:16

f 10:13 Joel 2:32

g 10:15 Isaiah 52:7

h 10:16 Isaiah 53:1

i 10:18 Psalm 19:4

j 10:19 Deuteronomy 32:21

k 10:20 Isaiah 65:1

l 10:21 Isaiah 65:2

a 11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14

b 11:4 1 Kings 19:18

c 11:8 Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10

d 11:10 Psalm 69:22,23

1 11:25 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

e 11:27 Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34

f 11:34 Isaiah 40:13

g 11:35 Job 41:11

a 12:19 Deuteronomy 32:35

b 12:20 Proverbs 25:21-22

1 13:9 TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,”

a 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21

b 13:9 Leviticus 19:18

a 14:11 Isaiah 45:23

1 14:26 TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.

a 15:3 Psalm 69:9

1 15:7 TR reads “us” instead of “you”

b 15:9 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49

c 15:10 Deuteronomy 32:43

d 15:11 Psalm 117:1

e 15:12 Isaiah 11:10

2 15:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

f 15:21 Isaiah 52:15

1 16:1 or, deacon

2 16:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

3 16:25 TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end of Romans instead of at the end of chapter 14, and numbers these verses 16:25-27.

1 1:10 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 1:19 Isaiah 29:14

b 1:31 Jeremiah 9:24

a 2:9 Isaiah 64:4

b 2:16 Isaiah 40:13

a 3:19 Job 5:13

b 3:20 Psalm 94:11

a 5:13 Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7

a 6:16 Genesis 2:24

1 7:3 NU and TR have “what is owed her” instead of “the affection owed her”.

a 9:9 Deuteronomy 25:4

a 10:7 Exodus 32:6

1 10:9 NU reads “the Lord” instead of “Christ”.

b 10:26 Psalm 24:1

1 11:3 or, origin

2 11:3 or, origin

3 11:3 or, origin

1 12:2 or Gentiles

1 14:6 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 14:21 Isaiah 28:11-12

b 14:34 Deuteronomy 27:9

a 15:27 Psalm 8:6

b 15:32 Isaiah 22:13

c 15:45 Genesis 2:7

1 15:49 NU, TR read “we will” instead of “let’s”

2 15:50 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

3 15:51 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

d 15:54 Isaiah 25:8

4 15:55 or, Hell

e 15:55 See Hosea 13:14

1 16:22 Greek: anathema.

2 16:22 Aramaic: Maranatha!

1 1:8 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 4:6 Genesis 1:3

b 4:13 Psalm 116:10

1 5:17 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

a 6:2 Isaiah 49:8

b 6:16 Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27

c 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41

d 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8

a 8:15 Exodus 16:18

a 9:9 Psalm 112:9

a 10:17 Jeremiah 9:24

1 11:22 or, seed

a 13:1 Deuteronomy 19:15

1 1:2 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 1:20 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

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 4:6 Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.

a 4:27 Isaiah 54:1

b 4:30 Genesis 21:10

a 5:14 Leviticus 19:18

1 5:22 or, faithfulness

1 1:18 TR reads “understanding” instead of “hearts”

1 3:9 TR reads “fellowship” instead of “administration”

a 4:8 Psalm 68:18

1 4:11 or, pastors

b 4:26 Psalm 4:4

2 4:27 or, opportunity

a 5:31 Genesis 2:24

a 6:3 Deuteronomy 5:16

1 6:17 from the Greek “ῥῆμα” (rhema), which means “spoken word”

1 1:1 or, superintendents, or bishops

2 1:1 Or, deacons

3 1:5 The word translated “partnership” (κοινωνίᾳ) also means “fellowship” and “sharing”.

4 1:12 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

5 1:13 or, praetorian

1 1:2 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 1:7 NU reads our

3 1:14 TR adds “through his blood,”

1 1:4 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

1 2:19 TR adds “Christ”

1 4:4 literally, possess his own vessel

1 1:3 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 1:12 TR adds “Christ”

1 2:3 or, falling away, or, defection

1 1:1 NU reads Christ Jesus and omits the Lord.

1 2:9 The word “just” is inserted here in English to preserve the meaning of the whole original Greek sentence in context. The word for “not” is the negative particle “μη” which denies an expected idea, as opposed to the usual word for “not” (ου) which denies a fact. Thus “μη” in this context is denying an expected idea (that women can be properly dressed without good works).

1 3:1 or, superintendent, or bishop

2 3:8 or, Deacons.

3 3:10 or, serve as deacons

4 3:12 or, deacons

5 3:13 or, served well as deacons

6 3:16 NU replaces “God” with “who”

1 5:4 TR adds “good and”

a 5:18 Deuteronomy 25:4

b 5:18 Luke 10:7; Leviticus 19:13

1 6:5 NU omits “Withdraw yourself from such.”

1 2:8 or, seed

a 2:19 Numbers 16:5

2 2:19 TR reads “Christ” instead of “the Lord”

1 3:16 or, Every writing inspired by God is

1 1:10 Onesimus means “useful”.

a 1:5 Psalm 2:7

b 1:5 2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13

c 1:6 Deuteronomy 32:43 LXX

d 1:7 Psalm 104:4

e 1:9 Psalm 45:6-7

f 1:12 Psalm 102:25-27

g 1:13 Psalm 110:1

1 2:7 TR adds “and set him over the works of your hands”

a 2:8 Psalm 8:4-6

2 2:11 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

b 2:12 Psalm 22:22

c 2:13 Isaiah 8:18

3 2:16 or, seed

a 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11

b 3:15 Psalm 95:7-8

a 4:3 Psalm 95:11

b 4:4 Genesis 2:2

c 4:5 Psalm 95:11

d 4:7 Psalm 95:7-8

a 5:5 Psalm 2:7

b 5:6 Psalm 110:4

a 6:14 Genesis 22:17

a 7:17 Psalm 110:4

b 7:21 Psalm 110:4

a 8:5 Exodus 25:40

1 8:8 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 8:11 TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow citizen”

b 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31-34

1 9:1 TR adds “tabernacle”

a 9:20 Exodus 24:8

a 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8

b 10:16 Jeremiah 31:33

c 10:17 Jeremiah 31:34

d 10:30 Deuteronomy 32:35

e 10:30 Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14

f 10:38 Habakkuk 2:3-4

1 11:7 or, reverence

2 11:13 TR adds “and being convinced of”

a 11:18 Genesis 21:12

b 11:33 Daniel 6:22-23

c 11:34 Daniel 3:1-30

d 11:34 1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31–7:20

e 11:35 1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37

f 11:37 2 Chronicles 24:20-21

g 11:37 Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10

a 12:6 Proverbs 3:11-12

b 12:12 Isaiah 35:3

c 12:13 Proverbs 4:26

1 12:20 TR adds “or shot with an arrow”

d 12:20 Exodus 19:12-13

e 12:21 Deuteronomy 9:19

f 12:24 Jeremiah 31:31

g 12:26 Haggai 2:6

h 12:29 Deuteronomy 4:24

a 13:5 Deuteronomy 31:6

b 13:6 Psalm 118:6-7

c 13:11 Leviticus 16:27

d 13:15 Psalm 50:23

1 1:2 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 1:21 or, preserve your life.

1 2:2 or, meeting

a 2:8 Leviticus 19:18

b 2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18

c 2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17

d 2:23 Genesis 15:6

1 3:4 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 3:6 or, Hell

a 4:6 Proverbs 3:34

1 5:4 Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)

2 5:12 TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”

1 1:13 literally, “gird up the waist of your mind” or “put on the belt of the waist of your mind”

a 1:16 Leviticus 11:44-45

b 1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8

1 2:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה” or “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

a 2:6 Isaiah 28:16

b 2:7 Psalm 118:22

c 2:8 Isaiah 8:14

2 2:21 TR reads “us” instead of “you”

d 2:22 Isaiah 53:9

3 2:24 or, stripes

4 2:25 “Overseer” is from the Greek ἐπίσκοπον, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.

a 3:12 Psalm 34:12-16

b 3:14 Isaiah 8:12

a 4:18 Proverbs 11:31

a 5:5 Proverbs 3:34

1 1:10 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 1:17 Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35

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 2:1 Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.

2 2:2 “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin.

3 2:20 Or, “know what is true”, or, “know all things”

1 4:10 “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin.

1 5:7 Only a few recent manuscripts add “in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth:”

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 1:1 or, messenger (here and wherever angel is mentioned)

a 1:6 Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6

2 1:7 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:8 TR adds “the Beginning and the End”

4 1:8 TR omits “God”

5 1:11 TR adds “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last.”

6 1:11 TR adds “which are in Asia”

b 1:13 Daniel 7:13

7 1:18 or, Hell

8 1:20 or, messengers (here and wherever angels are mentioned)

1 2:3 TR adds “have labored and”

2 2:15 TR reads “which I hate” instead of “likewise”

3 2:17 Manna is supernatural food, named after the Hebrew for “What is it?”. See Exodus 11:7-9.

4 2:20 TR, NU read “that” instead of “your”

a 2:27 Psalm 2:9

1 3:14 or, Source, or Head

1 4:8 Hodges/Farstad MT reads “holy” 9 times instead of 3.

2 4:11 TR omits “and God, the Holy One,”

1 5:13 TR omits “Amen!”

2 5:14 TR adds “twenty-four”

3 5:14 TR adds “the one living forever and ever”

1 6:6 A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (a little more than a quart).

2 6:8 or, Hell

3 6:11 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

1 7:14 or, oppression

1 8:7 TR omits “One third of the earth was burned up”

2 8:13 TR reads “angel” instead of “eagle”

1 9:2 TR adds “great”

2 9:11 “Abaddon” is a Hebrew word that means “ruin”, “destruction”, or “the place of destruction”

3 9:11 “Apollyon” means “Destroyer”.

4 9:16 literally, “ten thousands of ten thousands”

5 9:21 The word for “sorceries” (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions, poisons, and drugs

1 10:11 TR reads “He” instead of “They”

1 11:17 TR adds “and who is coming”

1 12:17 or, seed

1 13:10 TR reads “If anyone leads into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with a sword.” instead of “If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed.”

2 13:14 NU omits “my own”

1 14:5 TR adds “before the throne of God”

a 14:14 Daniel 7:13

2 14:20 1600 stadia = 296 kilometers or 184 miles

1 15:2 TR adds “his mark,”

1 16:21 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.

1 17:8 TR reads “yet is” instead of “shall be present”

a 19:15 Psalm 2:9

1 19:17 TR reads “supper of the great God” instead of “great supper of God”

1 20:13 or, Hell

2 20:14 or, Hell

1 21:6 TR and NU read “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.

2 21:8 The word for “sorcerers” here also includes users of potions and drugs.

3 21:16 12,012 stadia = or 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia instead of 12,012 stadia.

4 21:17 144 cubits is about 65.8 meters or 216 feet

5 21:19 or, lapis lazuli

1 22:1 TR adds “pure”

2 22:14 NU reads “wash their robes” instead of “do his commandments”.

3 22:19 TR reads “Book” instead of “tree”

1 1:2 That is, Shalmaneser. Compare 2 Kings 17:3, 23.

2 1:13 Gr. beauty.

3 1:15 Gr. his highways were troubled.

4 1:17 Some ancient authorities read behind.

5 1:21 That is, Esar-haddon, and so in verse 22.

a 2:6 Amos 8:10

1 2:10 Some authorities read until he went.

2 2:14 Gr. all things are known with you.

1 3:8 Gr. demon.

2 3:10 Gr. Hades.

3 3:17 Gr. demon.

1 4:17 Or, tomb

1 6:16 Gr. if.

1 7:18 Many ancient authorities read joy.

1 10:2 Many ancient authorities read “Are they perchance put to shame?”

2 10:5 Some authorities read “Woe is me.”

1 13:2 Gr. Hades.

1 2:10 Gr. they will yield...and you shall reserve.

1 5:11 Some authorities read and he brought them low with clay and brick, etc.

1 6:1 Some authorities read Ammon. Compare ver. 5.

2 6:2 Some authorities read Ammon. Compare ver. 5.

3 6:4 Gr. he has spoken.

1 9:3 Some authorities read which was ashamed for their deceit that they practiced.

2 9:12 Gr. of all your creation.

1 10:5 Gr. pure.

2 10:16 Gr. if.

1 14:7 Many authorities read he had recovered himself.

1 15:12 Compare 2 Maccabees 10:7.

1 1:1 Note: In the Hebrew and some copies of LXX, Esther begins here.

2 1:1 Greek words.

3 1:11 Greek to make her queen.

4 1:17 Greek contradicted.

1 2:20 Greek country.

2 2:23 Greek library.

1 3:13 Note: The part in brackets is not in Hebrew

1 4:17 Note: The part between brackets, i.e. to the end of chap. iv. is not in the Hebrew

2 4:19 See 3 Kings 8.53. Note.

3 4:32 Greek in my hand.

4 4:38 Greek virtues.

5 4:39 Greek begun against us.

6 4:43 Or, opinion.

7 4:44 Greek vision.

1 5:1 From the first verse to the third, theGreek widely differs from the Hebrew

2 5:14 Greek a tree cut.

1 6:1 Greek letters.

2 6:2 Greek letters.

3 6:9 Or, wide space.

4 6:13 Or, if it be M. etc. before whom.

1 7:4 see Heb. slanderer

2 7:9 Or, impaled.

1 8:6 Greek country.

2 8:9 Greek stewards.

3 8:13 the passages in brackets are not in the Hebrew.

4 8:13 perhaps rulers, see Luke 22. 25.

5 8:13 Greek contrived.

6 8:13 Greek not having borne.

7 8:13 Greek spirit.

8 8:13 Greek thrice guilty.

9 8:13 Greek greatest.

1 9:19 Greek good day.

2 9:22 Greek weddings.

3 9:24 Greek lot.

1 10:3 Greek succeded to Or, came into the place of.

2 10:3 the passages in brackets are not in the Hebrew.

1 1:1 Gr. in goodness.

2 1:6 Some authorities read the spirit of wisdom is loving to man.

3 1:6 Or, reviler

4 1:7 Gr. the inhabited earth.

5 1:8 Some authorities read nor indeed.

6 1:14 Or, all the races of creatures in the world

7 1:14 Or, a royal house

8 1:16 Or, Hades Gr. him.

9 1:16 Or, were consumed with love of him

1 2:1 Or, among

2 2:1 Or, returned out of Hades

3 2:4 Gr. weighed down.

4 2:5 Or, there is no putting back of our end

5 2:5 Or, comes again

6 2:6 Or, that are

1 3:9 Or, Those who are faithful through love will live with him

1 4:2 Gr. in the age.

1 5:7 See Proverbs 14:14.

2 5:14 Gr. like foam chased to thinness: or, as thin foam chased.

3 5:14 Most Greek authorities read hoar frost: some authorities, perhaps rightly, a spider’s web.

1 6:2 Or, in the multitudes of your nations

2 6:4 Or, the law

1 7:1 Many authorities read a mortal man.

2 7:20 Or, spirits

1 8:6 Gr. she.

2 8:7 Gr. Her labors are.

1 9:4 Or, children

2 9:8 Or, a place of sacrifice

3 9:12 Gr. thrones.

1 10:1 Gr. She.

2 10:5 Gr. She

3 10:6 Gr. she

4 10:6 That is, the region of the five cities.

5 10:7 Or, distrustful

6 10:8 Or, by their life

7 10:8 Gr. wherein.

8 10:8 Gr. stumbled.

9 10:10 Gr. she.

10 10:12 Gr. every one.

11 10:13 Gr. she.

12 10:13 Or, from the sin of his kindred...into a pit

13 10:15 Gr. she.

1 11:3 Or, took vengeance on foes

2 11:4 Or, the steep rock

3 11:4 See Deuteronomy 8:15; Psalm 114:8.

1 12:5 The words rendered slaughters and impious in verses 5 and 6 differ but slightly from the readings of the Greek text, which here yield no sense.

2 12:7 Or, children

3 12:8 Or, wasps

4 12:17 The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt.

5 12:20 Or, children

6 12:24 Gr. living creatures: and so elsewhere in this book.

1 13:5 Gr. is the first maker of them seen.

2 13:10 Or, are

3 13:10 Or, among

4 13:10 Or, are

5 13:11 Gr. carpenter who is a woodcutter.

6 13:11 Gr. plant. The Greek word, slightly changed, would mean trunk

7 13:13 Or, leisure

1 14:6 The Greek text here may be corrupt.

a 14:27 Exodus 23:13; Psalm 16:4; Hosea 2:17; Wisdom 14:21

1 15:3 Gr. entire.

2 15:5 Some authorities read reproach.

3 15:8 Or, life

4 15:9 Or, copper

5 15:11 Gr. a soul that moves to activity.

6 15:11 Or, life

7 15:12 Some authorities read they accounted.

8 15:12 Or, way of life

1 1:5 Verse 5 is omitted by the best authorities: The source of wisdom is God's word in the highest heaven, and her ways are the eternal commandments.

2 1:7 Verse 7 is omitted by the best authorities: To whom was the knowledge of wisdom manifested? Who has understood her abundant experience?

3 1:15 Gr. nested.

4 1:18 Gr. health of cure.

5 1:18 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities: Both are gifts of God for peace; glory opens out for those who love him. He saw her and took her measure.

6 1:21 Verse 21 is omitted by the best authorities: The fear of the Lord drives away sins. Where it resides, it will turn away all anger.

1 3:7 Some manuscripts add those who fear the Lord honor their father,

2 3:19 Some manuscripts add Many are lofty and renowned, but he reveals his secrets to the humble.

3 3:25 Some manuscripts omit verse 25.

1 4:13 Or, she

2 4:23 Some manuscripts omit this line.

a 6:30 Numbers 15:38

1 7:12 Gr. Don’t plow

2 7:26 Many authorities omit this line

1 9:9 The preceding line of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

2 9:12 Gr. Hades.

3 9:13 Or, authority

1 10:9 Two lines of this verse are here omitted by the best authorities.

2 10:21 Verse 21 is omitted by the best authorities: Fear of the Lord is the beginning of acceptance, but obstinance and pride are the beginning of rejection.

3 10:27 The Greek text of this verse is uncertain.

1 11:5 Gr. tyrants

2 11:15-16 Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities.

3 11:15-16 Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities.

1 12:6 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

2 12:8 Or, punished

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 16:15-16 Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities.

2 16:15-16 Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities.

3 16:21 Gr. among hidden things.

4 16:22 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

5 16:23 Gr. heart.

6 16:30 The Greek text of this line is uncertain.

7 16:30 Gr. The soul of every living thing.

1 17:4 Gr. him.

2 17:5 Verse 5 is omitted by the best authorities.

3 17:9 Verse 9 is omitted by the best authorities.

4 17:10 This line is added by the best authorities.

5 17:13 Some ancient authorities read their.

6 17:16 Verses 16, 18, and 21 are omitted by the best authorities.

7 17:17 The preceding part of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

8 17:18 Verses 16, 18, and 21 are omitted by the best authorities.

9 17:21 Verses 16, 18, and 21 are omitted by the best authorities.

10 17:22 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

11 17:26 A line is here omitted by the best authorities.

12 17:27 Gr. Hades.

1 18:3 The remainder of verse 2, and verse 3, are omitted by the best authorities.

2 18:27 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

3 18:31 Or, a rejoicing to

4 18:33 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

1 19:5 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

2 19:6 The preceding part of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

3 19:12 Gr. thigh of flesh.

4 19:18-19 Verses 18 and 19 are omitted by the best authorities.

5 19:18-19 Verses 18 and 19 are omitted by the best authorities.

6 19:21 The remainder of verse 20, and verse 21, are omitted by the best authorities.

7 19:25 Gr. to bring to light.

8 19:25 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

9 19:30 Gr. laughter of the teeth.

1 20:3 Verse 3 is omitted by the best authorities.

2 20:14 A line of this verse is here omitted by the best authorities.

3 20:17 The latter part of verse 17 is omitted by the best authorities.

4 20:20 Gr. parable.

5 20:32 Verse 32 is omitted by the best authorities.

1 21:5 Gr. him.

2 21:18 Gr. unexamined words.

3 21:25 The text seems to be uncertain.

1 22:9-10 Verses 9 and 10 are omitted by the best authorities.

2 22:9-10 Verses 9 and 10 are omitted by the best authorities.

3 22:13 Or, defiled: in his onslaught turn

4 22:23 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

1 23:3 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

2 23:4 Gr. lifting up of eyes.

3 23:4 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

4 23:5 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

5 23:6 Gr. appetite of the belly.

6 23:8 Most authorities read left.

7 23:16 Or, made a fire blaze up

8 23:28 Verse 28 is omitted by the best authorities.

1 24:1 Gr. her own soul.

2 24:15 See Exodus 30:34.

3 24:18 Verse 18 is omitted by the best authorities.

4 24:24 Verse 24 is omitted by the best authorities.

5 24:30 Gr. canal.

6 24:32 Gr. them.

1 25:12 Verse 12 is omitted by the best authorities.

2 25:26 Gr. according to your hand.

3 25:26 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

1 26:5 Gr. countenance.

2 26:15 Gr. weight.

3 26:16 Gr. his.

4 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

5 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

6 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

7 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

8 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

9 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

10 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

11 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

12 26:19-27 Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities.

1 27:2 Gr. rub.

1 28:10 The order of the lines in this verse is uncertain.

1 29:5 Gr. the season.

2 29:7 Some ancient authorities read Many therefore.

3 29:23 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

1 30:11 These three lines are absent from the oldest MSS.

2 30:12 These three lines are absent from the oldest MSS.

3 30:12 These three lines are absent from the oldest MSS.

4 30:17 The oldest MSS. omit And eternal rest.

5 30:17 Gr. age-long rest.

1 31:2 This appears to be the meaning; but the Greek text here is probably corrupt.

2 31:6 Or, comes to pass in their faces

3 31:12 Gr. open not your throat upon it.

1 32:21 Gr. without stumbling blocks.

1 33:14 A line of this verse is here omitted by the best authorities.

2 33:31 The Greek text of this line is probably corrupt.

1 35:14 Gr. if

2 35:17 Some ancient authorities read for the righteous.

1 36:2 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

2 36:6 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

3 36:11 The ancient authorities read I took them for my inheritance: but the Greek text is here very confused.

4 36:17 Gr. God of the ages.

5 36:19 Gr. throat.

1 38:6 Or, he

2 38:19 Gr. against the heart.

3 38:24 Gr. he that is lessened in his business.

4 38:28 Gr. renew.

5 38:33 This line is absent from the oldest MSS.

6 38:34 Gr. age.

1 39:1 Gr. Except him that.

2 39:11 Gr. cease.

1 40:2 The Greek text of this line is probably corrupt.

2 40:17 Gr. in.

3 40:27 Gr. him.

1 41:4 Gr. hades

2 41:8 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

3 41:21 Or, the face of a kinsman

1 42:6 Or, A seal

2 42:11 Or, a rejoicing

3 42:11 Gr. called forth.

4 42:18 Gr. sign.

1 43:1 Gr. of clearness.

2 43:10 Gr. judgement.

3 43:23 The most ancient authorities read Jesus planted it.

4 43:25 Gr. creation. Several ancient authorities read possession of cattle.

1 44:2 Gr. created.

2 44:3 Most authorities read They shall take counsel.

3 44:4 The Greek text is here corrupt.

4 44:11 Or, In their testaments

1 45:7 Gr. blessed.

2 45:8 Gr. strength.

3 45:12 Gr. an engraving of a signet of holiness.

4 45:15 Gr. filled his hands.

5 45:24 Or, sanctuary

1 46:1 Gr. Nave.

2 46:1 Gr. his.

3 46:6 See Joshua 10:11

4 46:6 Gr. panoply.

5 46:19 Gr. age-long sleep.

1 47:9 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

2 47:15 Gr. parables of riddles.

1 48:5 Gr. Hades.

2 48:13 Or, No man’s word overcame him

3 48:17 Some ancient authorities, apparently by a confusion, read Gog.

1 49:5 Gr. horn.

2 49:9 Gr. rain.

3 49:10 The remainder of this line is omitted by the best authorities.

4 49:12 Some ancient authorities read temple.

1 50:1 Or, high

2 50:3 The text here seems to be corrupt.

3 50:4 Gr. to beseige: that is, as to besieging it.

4 50:5 Gr. house of the veil.

5 50:15 Gr. cup of libation.

6 50:19 Gr. adornment.

7 50:26 According to some ancient versions, Seir.

8 50:27 Gr. graven.

9 50:29 Gr. footstep.

10 50:29 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.

1 51:5 Gr. Hades.

2 51:6 Gr. Hades

1 1:5 Another reading is, and vowed vows.

2 1:11 See Deuteronomy 11:21.

1 2:2 Another reading is, even as he has done.

2 2:17 Gr. Hades.

3 2:25 See Jeremiah 32:36.

1 3:4 Probably a mistake for the men of Israel.

2 3:7 Another reading is, and made us to call.

3 3:7 Another reading is, put away from our heart all etc.

4 3:11 Gr. Hades.

5 3:14 Or, prudence

6 3:18 Or, diligently sought after: Proverbs 11:27 (Sept.).

7 3:19 Gr. Hades.

8 3:21 Another reading is, the way thereof.

9 3:28 Or, prudence

1 4:15 Another reading is, for they.

2 4:22 Or, from your everlasting Savior

3 4:24 Another reading is, your.

4 4:35 Gr. demons.

1 5:6 Another reading is, as children of the kingdom.

1 6:7 Or, and he cares

2 6:7 Or, lives

3 6:31 Or, bear the litter

4 6:54 Another reading is, deliver him that is wronged.

5 6:72 Gr. purple and brightness.

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

10 1:20 circa B.C. 170. See 2 Maccabees 5:11-16.

11 1:20 Gr. heavy.

12 1:29 See 2 Maccabees 5:24.

13 1:29 Gr. two years of days.

14 1:29 Gr. heavy.

15 1:39 See 2 Maccabees 6:6.

16 1:54 circa B.C. 168. See 2 Maccabees 5:11.

17 1:54 The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.

18 1:54 The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.

19 1:59 The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.

20 1:60 See 2 Maccabees 6:10.

21 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.

10 5:66 Gr. strangers.

11 5:66 Or, Marisa See Josephus, Antiquities 12:8. 6, and 2 Maccabees 12:35.

12 5:67 Some ancient authorities read they.

13 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.

10 7:46 Gr. outflanked them.

11 7:47 Gr. stretched them out.

12 7:49 See 2 Maccabees 15:36.

13 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.

10 10:67 circa B.C. 148.

11 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.

10 14:39 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.

11 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.

1 16:14 circa B.C. 136.

2 16:24 Gr. book of days.

1 1:3 Gr. wills.

2 1:8 Or, porch

3 1:8 Gr. loaves

4 1:14 See 2 Maccabees 8:9

5 1:15 Gr. them.

6 1:16 Gr. struck down as with a thunderbolt.

7 1:16 Or, his company

8 1:18 The Greek text here is corrupt.

9 1:21 Gr. the things of the sacrifices. Similarily in verses 31, 33, and 2 Maccabees 2:10.

10 1:31 Some authorities read that great stones should inclose the water that was left. Both the Greek text and the meaning of this verse and the next are uncertain.

11 1:32 Or, but it spent itself, whereas the...shone still.

12 1:32 Or, shone back

1 2:4 Gr. and when. The Greek text here is probably corrupt.

2 2:5 Gr. a cavernous chamber.

3 2:7 Gr. gather together a gathering of the people.

4 2:8 Or, cloud, as...temple. As Moses

5 2:11 See Leviticus 10:16 and 9:24.

6 2:13 Or, also

7 2:13 Or, Nehemiah’s records

8 2:18 Gr. the earth under heaven.

9 2:19 Gr. greatest.

10 2:21 Gr. took for a prey.

11 2:22 Gr. propitious.

12 2:24 Or, weariness

13 2:25 Or, the past

14 2:28 Or, making no effort

15 2:28 Or, enlarge on

16 2:29 Gr. foundation.

17 2:29 Gr. decorate in encaustic.

18 2:30 Or, provide a place for discussions

19 2:32 Or, spoken of

1 3:4 Or, charge of the buildings Gr. office of aedile.

2 3:5 Or, Thraseas The Greek text is probably corrupt. Perhaps the true reading is Apollonius of Tarsus.

3 3:9 Some authorities read and of the city.

4 3:9 Or, him

5 3:11 Or, and not such a man as that impious Simon slanderously alleged

6 3:13 Some authorities read the other.

7 3:19 Or, porches

8 3:22 Gr. safe with all security.

9 3:24 Gr. manifestation.

10 3:35 Gr. greatest.

11 3:36 Gr. greatest.

1 4:3 Gr. those that had been approved by Simon.

2 4:4 Or, severity

3 4:4 Compare 2 Maccabees 4:21. See also 2 Maccabees 3:5. The Greek as commonly read means Apollonius, as being the governor...Phoenicia, did rage, and increase etc.

4 4:5 Gr. multitude.

5 4:9 Gr. through his.

6 4:14 Or, take part in the unlawful provision for the palaestra

7 4:14 Or, to the game of the discus

8 4:17 Or, this the due season of requital will make plain

9 4:19 See ver. 9.

10 4:19 Or, reserve for

11 4:20 Some authorities read the bearers.

12 4:21 The exact meaning of the Greek word is uncertain.

13 4:23 Or, convey to him reports

14 4:24 The Greek text of this verse is uncertain.

15 4:24 Or, him

16 4:24 Or, by flattering the dignity of his authority

17 4:27 Gr. was in due order.

18 4:29 Gr. successor.

19 4:31 Gr. successor.

20 4:34 Or, to get Onias into his hands

21 4:34 The Greek text of this sentence is probably corrupt.

22 4:34 Or, imprisoned him Gr. shut him off.

23 4:36 Or, in the several cities

24 4:38 Or, tore his

25 4:50 Gr. established as a.

1 5:3 Or, charges

2 5:4 Gr. manifestation.

3 5:5 Gr. perpetrated.

4 5:8 The Greek text here is uncertain.

5 5:9 See 1 Maccabees 12:7.

6 5:23 Some authorities read toward the Jews, he sent. The Greek text of this sentence is uncertain.

7 5:23 Compare 2 Maccabees 4:9, 19; 9:19.

8 5:24 Gr. Μυσάρχην, which also may mean ruler of the Mysians.

9 5:27 Gr. the grassy food.

1 6:1 Or, Geron an Athenian

2 6:2 Gr. Zeus.

3 6:2 Gr. Zeus.

4 6:2 Or, did

5 6:4 Or, idled with their fellows

6 6:5 Or, the altar

7 6:7 Gr. feast of Dionysia.

8 6:7 Gr. Dionysus.

9 6:15 Or, when our sins be come to their height

10 6:15 Gr. end.

11 6:23 The Greek text appears to be corrupt.

12 6:23 Some authorities read manner of life.

13 6:23 Or, but yet more

14 6:23 Gr. legislation.

15 6:25 Or, while I shall get

16 6:28 Gr. one that has left behind.

17 6:29 The Greek text of this verse is uncertain.

18 6:29 Gr. the aforesaid words were.

19 6:30 Or, blows

1 7:5 Gr. useless.

2 7:6 Or, comforted in

3 7:6 See Deuteronomy 31:21 and 32:36.

4 7:6 Or, comforted in

5 7:16 Gr. him.

6 7:22 Or, breath

7 7:23 Or, first origin

8 7:23 Or, first origin

9 7:23 Or, breath

10 7:24 Gr. make him one that is counted happy.

11 7:24 See 2 Maccabees 8:9.

12 7:36 Gr. short pain of ever-flowing life.

13 7:36 Gr. fallen. By the omission of one Greek letter the words would signify having endured a short pain, have now drunk of ever-flowing life under God’s covenant.

14 7:37 Gr. propitious.

15 7:38 Some authorities read may be stayed.

1 8:4 Gr. destruction.

2 8:4 Gr. concerning the blasphemies.

3 8:6 The Greek text of verses 6 and 7 is uncertain.

4 8:9 See 1 Maccabees 10:65. Compare 2 Maccabees 1:14; 7:24; 10:13; 14:11; 1 Maccabees 2:18.

5 8:10 Or, resolved

6 8:11 Gr. bodies.

7 8:11 Gr. bodies.

8 8:13 The Greek text here is uncertain.

9 8:20 Gr. Galatians.

10 8:20 Some authorities read eight.

11 8:22 Gr. appointing his kindred also leaders.

12 8:24 Gr. disabled in their limbs.

13 8:25 Or, while

14 8:27 The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain.

15 8:27 Gr. their arms...the spoils of the enemy.

16 8:28 Or, wounded Gr. shamefully handled.

17 8:30 Or, wounded Gr. shamefully handled.

18 8:31 The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain.

19 8:31 Gr. of them.

20 8:32 That is, probably, the captain of an irregular auxiliary force. Some write Phylarches, as a proper name.

21 8:33 The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt.

22 8:33 Or, country

23 8:33 Or, porches

24 8:33 Or, a solitary hut

25 8:35 Gr. having made himself solitary.

26 8:35 Or, having won the greatest possible favor by reason of the destruction of his army

27 8:36 Or, because of this their way of life Gr. because of this manner.

1 9:1 Or, with dishonor

2 9:2 Or, temples

3 9:2 Or, the people of the country turned

4 9:4 Or, in his spirit

5 9:5 Gr. remediless.

6 9:8 Or, showing manifestly to all the power of God

7 9:12 Some authorities read be minded as if equal to God.

8 9:14 Gr. build.

9 9:20 Or, You° fare well, and your children; and your affairs are to your mind. The Greek text in verses 20 and 21 is uncertain.

1 10:3 Gr. firing.

2 10:6 Or, not long before they kept the feast of tabernacles by wandering

3 10:9 Gr. such were the events of the end

4 10:10 That is, son of a good father.

5 10:10 Or, chief

6 10:12 Or, settle his relations with

7 10:13 See 2 Maccabees 8:9

8 10:13 The Greek text here is corrupt.

9 10:24 Or, horses

10 10:26 Gr. propitious.

11 10:26 See Exodus 23:22.

12 10:27 Gr. were by themselves.

13 10:29 Some authorities read and leading on the Jews; who also, taking.

14 10:32 See ver. 37.

15 10:35 Gr. passion as of wild beasts.

1 11:3 Or, on all the sacred places of the heathen

2 11:5 The Greek text here is uncertain.

3 11:8 Gr. a panoply.

4 11:9 Gr. wound.

5 11:14 The Greek text here is corrupt.

6 11:16 Gr. multitude.

7 11:17 Or, document

8 11:20 Or, but as to this.

9 11:21 This name is not found elsewhere, and is perhaps corrupt.

10 11:23 Or, should not be disquieted but

11 11:25 Or, disquiet

12 11:30 Gr. right hand.

13 11:38 Gr. Be in good health.

1 12:4 Gr. they also.

2 12:4 Gr. after.

3 12:11 Gr. them.

4 12:13 The relation between the names Gephyrun and Caspin is unknown, and perhaps the Greek text is corrupt. Compare Gephrun, the name of a city of Gilead mentioned by Polybius, 5.70.12.; and Casphor, 1 Maccabees 5:26, 36.

5 12:17 That is, men of Tob: see Judges 11:3, 2 Samuel 10:6, and compare 1 Maccabees 5:13.

6 12:20 Gr. them.

7 12:21 Compare Carnain, 1 Maccabees 5:26, 43, 44.

8 12:24 Gr. and the result will be that these be disregarded. The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt.

9 12:24 Or, have been shown

10 12:26 Compare Carnain, 1 Maccabees 5:26, 43, 44.

11 12:27 The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt.

12 12:27 Gr. in front of.

13 12:28 Some authorities read weight.

14 12:28 Or, his enemies

15 12:35 The Greek text is uncertain.

16 12:35 Compare 1 Maccabees 5:65.

17 12:38 Gr. Odollam.

18 12:39 The Greek text here is uncertain.

19 12:39 Or, and to bring them back to be with their kinsmen in the sepulchres

20 12:40 Perhaps these were consecrated images of the idols.

21 12:45 Gr. fall asleep.

22 12:45 Or, on the side of godliness

1 13:2 The Greek text here is corrupt.

2 13:4 Or, spirit

3 13:4 The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt.

4 13:5 Gr. contrivance or machine.

5 13:5 Or, sloping steeply

6 13:6 The Greek text here is probably corrupt.

7 13:8 Gr. about.

8 13:9 Some authorities read indignant.

9 13:12 Gr. and implored.

10 13:13 Some authorities read the Lord.

11 13:14 Some authorities read Creator.

12 13:14 Or, mode of life

13 13:15 Gr. court.

14 13:15 The Greek text here is probably corrupt.

15 13:15 Gr. camp.

16 13:15 The Greek text here is probably corrupt.

17 13:15 Gr. house.

18 13:16 Gr. camp.

19 13:17 Gr. him.

20 13:24 The form of this word is uncertain. Compare Girzites (or Gizrites), 1 Samuel 27:8. One manuscript reads Gerarenes.

21 13:26 Gr. came forward to the tribune or judgement seat.

1 14:6 That is, Chasidim.

2 14:7 Some authorities read a second time.

3 14:9 Or, is hardly bestead

4 14:11 Or, the king’s Friends likewise

5 14:11 See 2 Maccabees 8:9.

6 14:13 Gr. greatest.

7 14:14 Or, those who had fled before Judas all over Judea thronged

8 14:14 See 2 Maccabees 5:27.

9 14:16 The Greek text of this verse and the next is corrupt.

10 14:17 Or, and had received a check, yet not till late by reason of the sudden consternation of his adversaries

11 14:20 Or, people Gr. multitudes.

12 14:26 Or, and the covenants that had been made, took occasion and came

13 14:31 Or, though he was conscious that he had been nobly defeated by

14 14:31 Gr. the man.

15 14:31 Gr. greatest.

16 14:33 Or, chapel Gr. inclosure.

17 14:33 Gr. Dionysus.

18 14:35 Or, O Lord, who in yourself have no need of the universe

19 14:35 Gr. tabernacling.

20 14:37 Or, who was a lover

21 14:41 Or, people Gr. multitudes.

22 14:44 Or, the void place

23 14:46 Or. life and spirit

24 14:46 Or, breath

25 14:46 Some authorities read the same.

1 15:2 Or, honored above other days as a hallowed day

2 15:5 Or, that commands

3 15:5 Or, miserable

4 15:6 Gr. carrying his neck high.

5 15:8 Or, assault

6 15:10 Or, passion

7 15:11 Or, most worthy...all glad

8 15:17 Or, not to go out to battle, but nobly to engage within their lines, etc. The Greek text of this passage is uncertain.

9 15:20 Gr. beasts.

10 15:20 Or, stationed for convenient action

11 15:20 Or, in line

12 15:21 Gr. multitudes.

13 15:21 Gr. beasts.

14 15:22 Gr. camp.

15 15:29 Or, bewilderment

16 15:33 Or, them

17 15:33 The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt.

18 15:34 Or, the glorious Lord

19 15:39 Or, hurtful

20 15:39 Gr. but even as.

21 15:39 Or, adds delight to the benefit

a 1:1 2 Kings 23:21; 2 Chronicles 35:1

1 1:3 That is, the temple servants. See Num. 3:9.

2 1:8 Jehiel, 2 Chronicles 35:8.

3 1:15 Another reading is, were.

4 1:24 Or, sensibly Judges 16:17.

b 1:25 2 Chronicles 35:20

5 1:28 Another reading is, his chariot from him.

c 1:34 2 Kings 23:30; 2 Chronicles 36:1

6 1:34 Another reading is, Jeconias.

7 1:35 Another reading is, Israel.

d 1:39 2 Chronicles 36:4-5

8 1:43 Another reading is, eight.

9 1:49 Another reading is, even above all.

10 1:54 Another reading is, the arks of the Lord.

a 2:1 2 Chronicles 36:22,23; Ezra 1:1

1 2:5 Another reading is, Let his Lord be etc.

2 2:12 Another reading is, Simanassar.

b 2:16 Ezra 4:7

3 2:16 Rehum,

4 2:16 Shimshai.

1 4:7 Or, one and alone

2 4:18 Another reading is, do they not love etc.

3 4:36 Another reading is, him.

1 5:2 Gr. with peace.

a 5:7 Ezra 2:1

2 5:8 Seralah.

3 5:8 Or, Enenis.

4 5:8 Mispar.

5 5:8 Reclaiah

6 5:9 Parosh.

7 5:9 Shephatiah.

8 5:10 Arah.

9 5:11 Pahath-moab.

10 5:12 Zattu.

11 5:12 Zaccai.

12 5:13 Asgad.

13 5:13 According to other readings, 3622, or 3222.

14 5:14 Bigvai.

15 5:14 Adin.

16 5:15 Ater of Hezekiah.

17 5:15 Another reading is, Azuru.

18 5:16 Another reading is, Annias.

19 5:16 Bezai.

20 5:17 Bethlehem.

21 5:18 Azmaveth.

22 5:19 Kiriath-arim

23 5:19 Kiriath-jearim.

24 5:20 Rumah.

25 5:20 Geba.

26 5:21 Michmas.

27 5:21 Bethel.

28 5:21 Magbish

29 5:22 Lod, Hadid.

30 5:22 Ono.

31 5:22 Jericho.

32 5:22 Another reading is, two

33 5:23 Senaah.

34 5:23 Another reading is, one.

35 5:24 Jedaiah.

36 5:24 Another reading is, eight

37 5:24 Immer.

38 5:24 Another reading is, two hundred.

39 5:25 Pashhur.

40 5:25 Harim.

41 5:25 Another reading is, two hundred

42 5:27 Another reading is, forty

43 5:28 Shallum.

44 5:28 Ater.

45 5:28 Akkub.

46 5:28 Hatita.

47 5:28 Shobai.

48 5:29 Ziha.

49 5:29 Hasupha.

50 5:29 Keros.

51 5:29 Siaha.

52 5:29 Padon.

53 5:29 Hagaba.

54 5:30 Akkub.

55 5:30 Hagab.

56 5:30 Shamlai.

57 5:30 Hanan.

58 5:30 Giddel.

59 5:30 Gahar

60 5:31 Reaiah.

61 5:31 Rezin.

62 5:31 Nekoda.

63 5:31 Gazzam.

64 5:31 Uzza.

65 5:31 Paseah.

66 5:31 Besai.

67 5:31 Asnah.

68 5:31 Meunim.

69 5:31 Nephisim.

70 5:31 Bakbuk. According to other readings, Acum, or Acuph.

71 5:31 Hakupha.

72 5:31 Harhur.

73 5:31 Bazluth.

74 5:32 Mehida.

75 5:32 Harsha

76 5:32 Barkos.

77 5:32 Sisera.

78 5:32 Temah

79 5:32 Neziah. Another reading is, Nasith.

80 5:33 Hussophereth.

81 5:33 Peruda.

82 5:33 Jaalah.

83 5:33 Darkon.

84 5:33 Giddel.

85 5:33 Shephatia.

86 5:34 Hattil.

87 5:34 Pochereth-haz-zebaim, Ezra 2:57.

88 5:34 Another reading is, Misaias.

89 5:36 Telmelah.

90 5:36 Telharsha.

91 5:36 Cherub. Addan.

92 5:37 Delaiah. Another reading is, Asan.

93 5:37 Tobiah Another reading is, Baenan.

94 5:37 Nekoda.

95 5:38 Habaiah, or Hobaiah.

96 5:38 Hakkoz.

97 5:38 Barzillai. Another reading is, Phaezeldaeus.

98 5:40 Gr. the manifestation and truth.

99 5:43 Another reading is, hundred.

100 5:53 Another reading is, first.

b 5:58 Ezra 3:8-9

c 5:63 Ezra 3:12-13

d 5:66 Ezra 4:1

101 5:69 Another reading is, Asbacaphath.

102 5:70 Another reading is, for us and you.

103 5:72 Or, besieging them

104 5:73 Another reading is, leading the people astray in counsel, and raising commotions.

a 6:1 Ezra 4:24; 5:1

1 6:1 Iddo. Another reading is, Eddin

b 6:3 Ezra 5:3

2 6:3 Tattenai.

3 6:3 Shetharbozenai

4 6:18 Another reading is, Sabunassarus.

5 6:19 Another reading is, the same.

c 6:23 Ezra 6:1

6 6:23 Another reading is, place.

7 6:32 ft Another reading is, before spoken or written.

a 7:1 Ezra 6:13

1 7:5 Another reading is, the holy house.

2 7:8 Another reading is, tribes of Israel.

3 7:11 Another reading is, And those who were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together. And etc.

a 8:1 Ezra 7:1

1 8:2 The Vatican MS. omits the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias.

2 8:5 That is, the temple servants.

3 8:6 Some MSS. omit for his sake.

4 8:10 Another reading is, being within.

5 8:20 Gr. cors.

6 8:20 a firkin is about 41 liters or 11 gallons.

7 8:20 So some authorities. See Ezra 7:22. The common reading is, other things.

8 8:24 Or. captivity

9 8:29 Hattush.

10 8:29 Ezra 8:3, of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh.

11 8:31 Zerehiah.

12 8:32 Ezra 8:5, of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel.

13 8:32 Another reading is, two

14 8:36 Ezra 8:10, of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah.

15 8:47 Another reading is, a man.

16 8:47 Mahli.

17 8:47 Sherebiah.

18 8:48 Hashabiah.

19 8:54 Sherebiah, Hashabiah.

20 8:58 Another reading is, and the holy vessels and the silver and the gold etc.

21 8:62 Meremoth.

22 8:62 Uriah.

23 8:63 Noadiah the son of Binnui.

24 8:69 Another reading is, nor their uncleannesses, to wit, of the Gentiles, etc.

25 8:88 Or, Was you not etc.

b 8:91 Ezra 10:1

26 8:92 Or, exalted Deuteronomy 28:13.

a 9:1 Ezra 10:6

1 9:14 Another reading is, Ezias.

2 9:19 Maaseiah.

3 9:19 Jarib.

4 9:19 Gedaliah

5 9:21 Harim

6 9:21 Maaseiah.

7 9:21 Jehiel.

8 9:21 Uzziah.

9 9:22 Pashhur.

10 9:22 Jozabad.

11 9:22 Elasah.

12 9:23 Kelaiah.

13 9:23 Kelita.

14 9:23 Pethahiah.

15 9:24 Eliashib.

16 9:25 Telem.

17 9:26 Parosh.

18 9:26 Ramiah

19 9:26 Izziah. Another reading is, Iezias

20 9:26 Mijamin.

21 9:26 Malchijah.

22 9:27 Jehiel.

23 9:27 Abdi.

24 9:28 Zattu.

25 9:28 Elioenai.

26 9:28 Eliashib.

27 9:28 Mattaniah.

28 9:28 Zabad.

29 9:28 Aziza.

30 9:29 Zabbai.

31 9:29 Athlai.

32 9:30 Bani.

33 9:30 Meshullam.

34 9:30 Malluch.

35 9:30 Adaiah.

36 9:30 Sheal.

37 9:33 Mattenai.

38 9:33 Mattattah.

39 9:33 Zabad.

b 9:38 Nehemiah 8:1

40 9:41 Another reading is, they gave all heed.

41 9:43 Hilkiah.

42 9:44 Pedaiah.

43 9:44 Hashuin.

44 9:48 Hodiah.

45 9:48 Some authorities omit and read...Lord.

46 9:55 Or, were inspired by

1 1:2 Or, order Or, array Genesis 2:1 (Sept.).

2 1:7 Gr. of the evils of men.

3 1:8 The Alex. MS. omits You... saved.

4 1:9 The Alex. MS. omits O Lord... multiplied.

5 1:10 Some authorities omit by reason of my sins.

6 1:10 The Alex. MS. omits I did... commandments.

7 1:10 Or, stumbling blocks

8 1:13 Another reading is, O God.

1 1:0 or, supernumerary

1 1:34 Or, together with you

1 2:7 Another reading is, sacrament, or, oath

2 2:13 Another reading is, Go.

3 2:16 Or, recognize

4 2:29 Lat. Gehenna.

5 2:40 Another reading is, Take.

1 3:4 So the Syriac and Aethiopic.

2 3:5 So the Syriac.

3 3:18 So some versions. Lat. set fast.

4 3:20 Or, corrupt

5 3:21 Or, corrupt

6 3:22 Or, corruption

7 3:22 Or, corrupt

8 3:26 Or, corrupt

9 3:31 So the Syriac. The Latin has how this way may be left.

1 4:4 Or, corrupt

2 4:5 After the Oriental versions.

3 4:7 After the Oriental versions.

4 4:7 So the Syriac. The Latin omits of hell? or which are the paths.

5 4:9 Another reading is, from which you can not be separated

6 4:11 Syriac and Aethiopic, the way of the incorruptible.

7 4:12 So the Syriac and Aethiopic. The Latin is corrupt.

8 4:13 So the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt. See Judges 9:8.

9 4:22 After the Oriental versions.

10 4:24 So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt.

11 4:26 So the Syriac.

12 4:28 so the Syriac and Aethiopic.

13 4:30 Or, threshing floor

14 4:33 So the chief oriental versions.

15 4:34 So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt.

16 4:35 So the Syriac. The Latin has shall I hope on this fashion?

17 4:35 Or, threshing floor

18 4:37 Syr. rest.

19 4:39 Or, threshing floor

1 5:1 So the syriac.

2 5:3 So the Syriac.

3 5:5 According to some Oriental versions, the air.

4 5:16 The Syriac has Psaltiel.

5 5:24 After the Oriental versions. The Latin has pit.

6 5:28 After the Oriental versions. The Latin reads have prepared.

7 5:45 So the Syriac.

8 5:45 The Latin omits If...alive at once.

1 6:4 So the Syriac.

2 6:8 Perhaps for Abram.

3 6:8 Another reading is, Isaac.

4 6:10 So the Syriac, etc. The Latin is defective.

5 6:29 After the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt.

6 6:30 So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt.

7 6:31 The Latin has tell you by day.

8 6:39 The Latin adds from you.

9 6:55 So the Syriac. The Latin has the firstborn world.

1 7:3 So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin MSS. have deep.

2 7:18 According to some authorities, have not suffered...and shall not see.

3 7:19 Another reading is, There is no judge...and none that has understanding.

4 7:29 Lat. man

5 7:32 Or, chambers See 2 Esdras 4:35.

6 7:33 The Syriac adds and the end shall come.

7 7:35 The passage from verse [36] to verse [105], formerly missing, has been restored to the text. See Preface, page ix.

8 7:36 So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin MSS. have place.

9 7:36 Lat. Gehenna.

10 7:38 So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has shall you speak.

11 7:41 Or, storm

12 7:52 The Latin is here corrupt.

13 7:59 The Latin here is corrupt.

14 7:60 The Latin is here corrupt.

15 7:68 The Latin is here corrupt.

16 7:79 Another reading is, him.

17 7:86 The passage is corrupt.

18 7:87 Lat. greater

19 7:87 The Latin is here corrupt.

20 7:89 The Latin is here corrupt.

21 7:96 The Latin is here corrupt.

22 7:99 The latin is here corrupt.

23 7:103 So the Oriental versions.

24 7:104 The Latin has a bold day

25 7:104 So the Oriental versions.

26 7:104 the Latin has understand.

27 7:105 So the Syriac. The Latin omits in that day...another.

28 7:107 That is, Achan. See Joshua 7:1.

29 7:108 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin omits in the days of Saul.

30 7:112 Omitted in the Latin.

31 7:113 Omitted in the Latin.

32 7:127 Or, intent

33 7:139 Lat. contempts.

1 8:5 So the Syriac. The Latin is incorrect.

2 8:6 So the Syriac. The Latin has place.

3 8:9 So the Syriac. The Latin is imperfect.

4 8:14 So the Syriac. The Latin is incorrect.

5 8:20 Or, inhabitest eternity

6 8:22 According to the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has, even they whose service takes the form of wind etc.

7 8:29 The Syriac has received the brightness of your law.

8 8:31 So the Syriac and Aethiopic versions.

9 8:31 Lat. manners.

10 8:31 Another reading is, shall be.

11 8:35 So the Syriac. There appears to be an error in the Latin text.

12 8:41 Lat. be saved.

13 8:43 So the printed Latin text. The earlier MSS. are corrupt.

14 8:52 The Syriac has established.

15 8:53 After the chief Oriental versions.

1 9:5 So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt.

2 9:11 Or, me

3 9:12 Or, me

4 9:13 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin has and whose... created, and when.

5 9:17 So the Aethiopic and Arabic. The Latin has creation.

6 9:19 So the Syriac.

7 9:19 So the Syriac.

8 9:21 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin has great tribes.

9 9:26 The Syriac and Aethiopic have Arphad.

10 9:45 Lat. townsmen.

1 10:2 Lat. townsmen.

2 10:8 See the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt.

3 10:11 So the Syriac.

4 10:25 The Syriac has to draw near to her, and my heart was greatly astonied, and when I mused etc.

5 10:44 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

6 10:44 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

7 10:45 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

8 10:46 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

9 10:49 Omitted in the Oriental versions.

1 11:2 So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has only and were gathered together.

2 11:11 The Syriac has her little wings, and, etc.

3 11:20 The Syriac has little wings.

4 11:20 The Aethiopic has left.

5 11:25 The Syriac has little wings.

6 11:31 The Syriac has little wings.

1 1:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

2 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:3 or, seed

1 2:31 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 3:1 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 3:23 The Song of the Three Holy Children is an addition to Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint but not found in the traditional Hebrew text of Daniel. This portion is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is found inserted between Daniel 3:23 and Daniel 3:24 of the traditional Hebrew Bible. Here, the verses after 23 from the Hebrew Bible are numbered starting at 91 to make room for these verses.

3 3:77 Some authorities transpose this verse and the next one.

4 3:91 Verses 91-97 were numbered 24-30 in the traditional Hebrew text of Daniel.